Other products can get on the list if manufacturers pay supplemental rebates to the state, in effect reducing prices to the level of the preferred drugs.

Moreover, drug companies would have to pay rebates to the state to offset price increases that exceed the rate of inflation.

Drug makers routinely pay rebates to pharmacy benefit managers as a reward for increasing the use of their products.

The league will pay rebates based on advertising lost from the replacement games.

Medicaid typically pays the retail price for drugs, but in effect it gets a discount because manufacturers must pay rebates to the Government.

By paying rebates, they are reducing their profit on any one trade, but getting more business.

Madoff, like other firms that pay rebates, generally accepts only orders up to a certain size.

That way, the companies do not have to pay rebates, the legislators say.

Since then, most insurers have paid rebates of varying amounts.

Those programs closely monitor drug prices, and drug makers often typically end up paying rebates to the states.