Contracts below the typical acquisition benchmark (102.7) on the median drug.
On this filing, the median drug carries 47 distinct contracted rates across practices, with 70% of billing volume on the single most common rate — a dispersed, negotiated book. Top-quartile practices contract about 9% above bottom-quartile practices — the negotiated tail favors scale.
Benchmarks: typical acquisition 102.7 · Medicare 104.3 after sequestration · 106 statutory (ASP = 100).
Contracted rates from insurers’ machine-readable files, not amounts paid on a claim.