Biosimilar Substitution Financial Risk in Buy-and-Bill
Biosimilar competition is collapsing reimbursement faster than practices can adjust.
Darius Okonkwo
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7 stories in Drug Cost & Reimbursement.
Biosimilar competition is collapsing reimbursement faster than practices can adjust.
Misclassifying vials costs practices through denials with no recovery path.
Prior authorization denials in buy-and-bill infusion create unrecoverable financial losses.
One denial on a five-figure drug claim can erase an entire month's margin for small infusion groups.
Denial and underpayment require different strategies to protect biologic revenue.
How to avoid the five most expensive J-code mistakes that tank biologic claims.
Infusion practices vastly underestimate denial costs by tracking only lost reimbursement.