In a recent study, researchers collected current prices for the 300 most common pharmaceutical drugs from the leading wholesalers specializing in bulk sales. It was found that these prices average 60 to 80 percent below the suggested wholesale prices listed for the same drugs in the current annual edition of a widely used, independently published pharmaceutical price guidebook.
Suggested wholesale prices for the most common pharmaceutical drugs tend to be less than those for less common pharmaceutical drugs would help to explain the situation described above EXCEPT.