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This Program Allows us to get from others. The bottom line is we are paying through one part of our system for lower prices because they are negotiated through the federal government but two parts of our drugs we purchase dont have that same level of lower prices. Right. We use the organization to negotiate prices for the groups and it only applies to outpatient. On the drug purchasing that we do through innovation, my understanding is that the city and you are under agreement not to discuss the pricing . If i were to disclose somebodys price then the supplier might not be able to negotiate wi...

As well as our jails. I would also note that our city purchases many of our drugs for our inpatient populations and others with a contract through a Company Called innovation. Unfortunately the pricing for those particular drugs are covered by nondisclosure agreement and we dont have the ability to understand how those prices are set. The resolution is asking for four things. It asks the department of Public Health to use consumer websites to provide comparisons for drugs in San Francisco and asks for the drug pricing through all inpatient settings federal legislative agenda for this year. We ...

Going to our schools and making our neighborhood safe. But unfortunately even our residents that have good coverage are spending this money on medications. There are a lot of complicated issues that under lie why drug pricing is so high. There are a couple things that i would like to note that i have certainly explored with city staff on this issue. We have very little transparency on the prices set not only with drugs but also prices paid by the city and county of San Francisco. Some of the out patients are eligible to receive a low price negotiated by the federal government in the socalled 3...

United health uhcs terms and conditions. So it was a measure passed by the board. Obviously the board could revisit that language. I think as dave woods indicated on behalf of dph that if certain pieces and information are made public, we definitely would lose our ability to leverage better prices. Even prime vendors would be reluctant to act on our behalf because of another locality could point to San Francisco as being able to acquire a certain price and a certain drug and manufacturers would start to back out of negotiations. So its something again that the board could look at. Bus there ar...