Hospitals are forming their own drug companies
Intermountain Healthcare, a nonprofit Salt Lake City hospital group, is partnering with three Catholic nonprofit hospital groups to form a
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Part D/Prescription Drugs
Medicare surcharges or income-related monthly adjustment amount
In 2018, most Medicare beneficiaries pay $134 per month for Part B but high-income retirees pay more and in some
Read MoreDisposeRx allows patients to dispose of unwanted or expired pills at home
Wal-Mart’s pharmacies will now offer its pharmacy customers, filling a new Class II opioid prescription, a packet of DisposeRx, creates
Read MoreOpioid Crisis Blamed For Sharp Increase In Accidental Deaths In U.S.
(By Scott Neuman for NPR) Accidental deaths in the United States rose significantly in 2016, becoming the third-leading cause of
Read MoreInside The Global Race To Deliver A Vital Radioactive Isotope Used To Detect Cancer
(By Sarah Varney for Kaiser Health News) JANESVILLE, Wis. — In a cornfield here, past the shuttered General Motors plant
Read MoreMedicare Advantage Disenrollment Period ends February 14th
If you are not happy with your current Medicare Advantage health plan, you have until February 14th to make changes
Read MoreAt $850,000, price for new childhood blindness gene therapy four times too high, nonprofit says
(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) The $850,000 list price for a new medicine that treats a genetic form of childhood blindness is
Read MoreHospital Honchos Hone New Message In Wake Of Opioid Epidemic: Expect Pain
(By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio in partnership with NPR and Kaiser Health News) Doctors at some of the largest
Read MoreMedicare Part D already involves price negotiations
Congressional Democrats are behind legislation (S.2011 and H.R. 4138), that would set prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries. However, according
Read MoreCaring Voice Coalition lost crucial stamp of approval from the U.S. government
Caring Voice Coalition, a major drug industry funded charity, had received hundreds of millions of dollars from drug companies, but
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