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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

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bn for patient spending on branded drug cost-sharing after accounting for manufacture-financed support. Exhibit 3 shows these costs for each stakeholder, totaling $93 billion. These are, in order of magnitude: $35.8 bn for the cost of physician practice time interactive with payers about prior authorization.