TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brot-Goldberg,Zarek C.
AU  - Che,Catherine
AU  - Handel,Benjamin R.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Vertical Relationships in Drug Supply: State of Current Research 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - Analysis of Health Care Markets
KW  - jelc
KW  - Health Insurance, Public and Private
KW  - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
KW  - Vertical Restraints • Resale Price Maintenance • Quantity Discounts
N1  - April 2022; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Despite their importance to the supply of prescription drugs, there has been limited research on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their vertical relationships to insurers and drug manufacturers. This paper provides an overview of the current state of research on this topic, motivates why further research is needed, and discusses promising theoretical and empirical directions for that research
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w29959
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w29959
ER  -