Because rebate contracts are secret, nobody knows the full extent of the practice nor how much it costs the health system in unrealized savings. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Lisa Crook was lucky. She saved $800 last year after her insurance company started covering a new, less expensive insulin called Basaglar that was virtually identical to the brand she had used for years.
The list price for Lantus, a long-acting insulin made by Sanofi that she injected once a day, had nearly quadrupled over a decade.
With Basaglar, “I've never had my insulin cost drop so significantly,” said Crook, a legal assistant in Dallas who has Type 1 diabetes.
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