Medicare - General

Hepatitus-C Drugs Continuing to Escalate in Cost

(Source – PBS.org)

Spurred in part by recent estimates that $9 billion will be spent on Hepatitis-C drugs, the Department of Health and Human Services has scheduled a public forum to address rising drug costs. One of the objectives of this forum will be to focus on ways to enable recovery of drug research costs while maintaining relative affordability in the marketplace. Read an Associate Press news release by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar here.

 

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