Payers Attempt to Impose So-Called White-Bagging Policies on Hospitals Over the past 16 months, three of the nations largest commercial payers UnitedHealthcare, Anthem and CIGNA have instituted new policies affecting how and whether they will pay for high-cost drugs administered in hospital outpatient infusion centers and outpatient sites. Referred to in the industry as White Bagging, these new payer policies require that hospitals administering certain high-cost medications in an outpatient setting receive those medications from third parties contracted By: King Spalding