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$1,600,000.

That is the amount of total lasers that I was facing for one of my clients who had six employees on high cost pharmaceuticals at our first renewal together. Not too long ago, an advisor might have seen these numbers and thought “This sucks, but it is what it is.” But that’s not so much the case anymore. After all, a high-cost claim on pharmacy can now be mitigated in many ways. There are manufacturers assistance programs, specialty carve outs, and globally sourced pharmaceuticals, to name a few. I’m personally pretty familiar with that last one, as I globally source my sons Epi-Pens from Canada.

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