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DRUG PRICES
As the prices of prescription drugs skyrocket in oncology and other disease areas, there is a danger payers will scale back coverage of these life-saving products. How can society cope with these escalating drug costs? Where is this crisis headed, and what measures are drug companies, regulators and lawmakers willing or able to implement?
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by tighter credit. Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co led declines for drug makers on speculation the government will further...
in 2010 contracts to rivals for reasons including price and service. A pharmacy- benefits manager, or PBM, negotiates...
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its authority. REDUCE SPENDING FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS Allowing Medicare to use its huge purchasing power to negotiate...
t take off the table such cost-cutting ideas as raising the eligibility age, allowing the government to negotiate drug...
taken some reasonably ambitious measures to make the system more efficient including last years fight with pharmacies...
16 to 20 percent with insurance companies," grandma continued. "That contributes to cost, along with factors...
do you intend to bring down prices of such drugs that are outside price control? The issue of drug prices is looked...
University of Chicago Medical Center and a pharmacoepidemiologist who studies the quality of prescription drugs as well...
dollars, stashed in household furniture. Australia Federal Police's Sydney office manager, Commander Brian McDonald,...
million, stashed in household furniture. Australia Federal Police's Sydney office manager, Commander Brian McDonald,...
City has one of the nation's biggest Medicaid programs, whose recipients already get the benefit of lower drug prices.
chief executive officer, said policymakers should focus on lowering underlying medical costs such as hospitals,...
City has one of the nation's biggest Medicaid programs, whose recipients already get the benefit of lower drug prices.
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further. U.S. consumers often take advantage of online pharmacies, based in countries like Canada which control their...
more precise definition of problems and a more targeted approach to solutions. In addition, these initiatives have...
In another sign of growing opposition to high drug prices, an arm of the U.K.'s health-care system said Britain...
keep generics off the market are already costing consumers and taxpayers $3.5 billion a year in higher drug...
increased from 15.7% to 15.8%. The margin development was mainly influenced by the favorable development of...
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