{"id":12383,"date":"2019-01-09T09:57:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12383"},"modified":"2019-01-09T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:57:04","slug":"prescription-drug-costs-driven-by-manufacturer-price-hikes-not-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12383","title":{"rendered":"Prescription Drug Costs Driven By Manufacturer Price Hikes, Not Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alison Kodjak for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>The skyrocketing cost of many prescription drugs in the U.S. can be blamed primarily on price increases, not expensive new therapies or improvements in existing medications as drug companies frequently claim, a new study shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1377\/hlthaff.2018.05147\">The report<\/a>, published Monday in the journal<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/\">\u00a0<em>Health Affairs<\/em><\/a>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>found that the cost of brand-name oral prescription drugs rose more than 9 percent a year from 2008 and 2016, while the annual cost of injectable drugs rose more than 15 percent.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/01\/07\/682986630\/prescription-drug-costs-driven-by-manufacturer-price-hikes-not-innovation?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68853942&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-82FJ0XeLI1MZGSAUDvk7bV3t4pDNp5u_QfvIOn3ArOCRciK5rYOlxBsvxw1w8BGvg_yKtTnWE-3tOo4L5uw0sx82NIPw&amp;_hsmi=68853942\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10021\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alison Kodjak for NPR) The skyrocketing cost of many prescription drugs in the U.S. can be blamed primarily on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12384,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions\/12384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}