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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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$300 billion this year. By at least one analysis, it is the highest annual rate of inflation for drug prices since 1992.
will force Americans to pay even more. If, on the other hand, Medicare were allowed to negotiate lower drug prices,...
yen. Pharamceuticals also dragged on the market after a government unit said it has decided to lower new drug prices to...
are on Medicaid, the health program for the poor. It also would require the health secretary to negotiate drug prices...
diseases. Phases out the gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage by 2019. Requires the HHS secretary to negotiate...
plans, because Canada doesn’t cover prescription drugs. What Canada does, instead, is a really good job negotiating...
Congress this year also asked the FTC for a review. In May, the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug...
this country to recover the costs of selling to Canada and European nations whose state-run health-care systems keep...
industrial enterprises. Instead, employers contributed 6 percent of wages and employees 2 percent to cover hospital,...
how much compensation would be disbursed, said the de facto monopoly enjoyed by some brands led to inflated drug prices.
scans, colonoscopies, minor orthopedic surgeries and mammograms can all be shopped with these resources.
guy—all the while escaping scrutiny for the fact that in recent months it has been quietly jacking up drug prices.
A Harvard study suggests it might not be worth it to treat boys with the HPV vaccine.
doctor "does not prescribe drugs efficiently and economically, she may have to pay back money.'' Collective...
rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. The MedRx SaaS technology and management model has consistently reduced...
sake of harmony, the administration has compromised too much and reneged on a campaign promise to rein in drug prices.
the importation provision with worried drug company executives, telling them that 'health insurance reform that lowers...
By law, there is no way for other companies to make their own versions of biologicals, which are in a different...
The White House on Monday hailed what it described as a “historic agreement to lower drugs costs” for older Americans,...
When President Barack Obama spoke to the American Medical Assn. on June 15, he couldn't quite quantify the potential...
Generic versions of expensive biotechnology drugs would reduce the amount of money spent on health care in the United...
An oft-repeated phrase during the current debate over health reform: We’re not going to repeat the mid-1990s.
Abbott Laboratories, Pharmacia, Roxane Laboratories and Warrick Pharmaceuticals have paid Ohio $8.44 million to settle...
Sanofi-Aventis SA will pay $95.5 million to settle allegations that it overcharged state Medicaid programs for...
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