Texas pharmacist Brad Hart gets family transfer request.
Kid already starts antibiotic course.
Insurance demands prior auth for last 14 tablets.
Drug costs pharmacy 18 dollars cash.
AWP benchmark lists those tablets at 2500 dollars.
PBM middlemen and rules create this fake price.
Obamacare and Medicare push everything through third party payers.
System delays care then bills everyone for fix it creates.
How Government ‘Affordability’ Turns an $18 Antibiotic Into $2,500. “Nothing makes anything less affordable than a government promise to make something more affordable, and a Texas pharmacist revealed this week how an $18 generic antibiotic gets listed for $2,500. But from there, things get so seriously stupid that you just know there must be a government program involved.”