Health Care - GeneralPart D/Prescription Drugs

Tracking Who Makes Money On A Brand-Name Drug

(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)

The path of prescription drugs from the factory to the patient is complicated. KHN’s Julie Appleby explains how money flows through the system and contributes to the cost of a 30-day supply of a hypothetical brand-name medicine.  Continue reading here……

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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