Visualizing Health Policy: Recent Trends in Prescription Drug Costs
Source: “Visualizing Health Policy: Recent Trends in Prescription Drug Costs,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, accessed April 5, 2016,
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Part D/Prescription Drugs
CMS finalizes 2017 payment and policy updates for Medicare Health and Drug Plans
(Source – CMS.gov) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today released the final Medicare Advantage and Part D
Read MoreFrustrations in Rising Drug Prices
On Monday, The American College of Physicians, an association of one hundred forty-three thousand(143,000) internal medicine physicians have joined the
Read MorePharmaceutical Company Has Hiked Price On Aid-In-Dying Drug
(By April Dembosky, KQED for Kaiser Health News) When California’s aid-in-dying law takes effect this June, terminally ill patients who decide to
Read MoreSome Thoughts of Fixing Medicare
Medicare–like Social Security–is on a path to deplete its cash reserves even quicker than Social Security, yet it doesn’t seem
Read MoreThe FDA is Four Years Behind in Granting Approval for Generic Drugs
The newly confirmed Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. Robert M. Califf, stated the backlog of some
Read MoreNew Warnings on Pain Medicines.
The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to require a black box warning (the strongest warning that FDA puts on a
Read MoreThree (3) Billion Dollars in Drug Costs Savings
On Monday, Anthem Inc., the largest for-profit managed health care company in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, filed a
Read MoreAre Pharmacy Benefit Managers the Cause of High Drug Costs?
Why are we paying more for drugs; is it due to secret deals between drug makers and pharmacy benefit managers
Read MoreThe Medicare Drug Payment Model Worsens a Bad Situation
According to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the proposal by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that
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