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Rules 1.1.0 · as of 14 Sep 2026
Owen Scott Muir · Said 16 Aug 2026 · owen-2324
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“Now the squeeze. Drug prices go up every year. Physician reimbursement, against inflation, goes down every year. So the doctor buys an increasingly expensive drug and gets paid a shrinking amount to administer it.”
Buy-and-bill economics for Spravato (esketamine): the author asserts a continuing trend of rising drug prices and falling real physician reimbursement, so the doctor buys an increasingly expensive drug and gets paid a shrinking amount to administer it.
Descriptive, retrospective, or a statement of preference; no future state asserted.