
|Articles|June 4, 2007
Latebreakers: Get used to new Part D lexicon
You'll be seeing a lot of the term downstream entity. That's the handle CMS proposes to use to signify pharmacies or pharmacists who contract with PBMs, dubbed first-tier entities, that, in turn, contract with Part D plan sponsors.
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