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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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Services said in a news release. The change, effective Jan. 1, 2010, revises the way pharmacies report negotiated drug...
for 67% of the drugs dispensed in 2007, up from 60% two years earlier. At the same time, drug prices in general have...
) started a war in 2006 when it began to offer generic medicines for $4. WSJ: Big pharmacy chains like CVS Caremark...
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has announced that the state has reached a $1.7 million agreement with...
Retail pharmacies are waging what some consider a generic-drug price war that is threatening margins in a typically...
Two prescription drug companies have agreed to pay $2 million to settle allegations they submitted inflated drug prices...
Alabama recently recouped $28 million by settling cases involving alleged overcharges by several drug manufacturers to...
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle allegations it was violating a 2003 antitrust...
then market forces would impose some discipline among drug makers. The influence that health insurance companies exert...
AstraZeneca, the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals group, is looking at developing lower-cost versions of its rivals’...
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Figuring out which Medicare drug-insurance plan is right for you is confusing enough. Now, complaints are mounting...
Tuesday. They said lowering insurance co-payments would be a better way of attacking the problem of rising prescription...
Sugar may help the medicine go down. But it won’t disguise the fact that you’re paying more for prescription...
Need a sign of how bad the economy's looking? Now, companies from perhaps the most recession-resistant industry --...
Big drugs firms, including Merck, report that growth is slowing in that all-important market. Drugs were supposed to be...
American consumers and health insurers saved about $1 billion on generic drugs this year as “fierce” competition among...
The ratings service issued a negative outlook for drugmakers and for-profit hospital operators and a stable outlook for...
Survey shows low availability and high prices impede access to medicines in developing nations For developing and...
Two views on how the pharmaceutical industry can best meet the medical needs of impoverished people around the globe.
THE RULES of the game are changing in the pharmaceutical industry. A number of antagonistic pressures are bearing down...
Finally, a little good health care news for consumers: U.S. prices for generic prescription drugs, which already cost...
For years, Britain was almost alone in using evidence of cost-effectiveness to decide what to pay for.
As the economy sours, people are feeling the economic pinch of co-payments for prescription drugs. Now, Cigna, one of...
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