{"id":16856,"date":"2020-09-22T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16856"},"modified":"2020-09-22T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:43:28","slug":"its-not-just-insulin-lawmakers-focus-on-price-of-one-drug-while-others-rise-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16856","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Just Insulin: Lawmakers Focus on Price of One Drug, While Others Rise Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachana Pradhan for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Michael Costanzo, a Colorado farmer diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2016, has a well-honed ritual: Every six months, he takes an IV infusion of a medicine, Rituxan, to manage his disease, which has no cure. Then he figures out how to manage the bill, which costs thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>For a time, the routine held steady: The price billed to his health insurance for one infusion would cost $6,201 to $6,841. Costanzo\u2019s health insurance covered most of it, and he paid the rest out-of-pocket.<\/p>\n<p>But last fall the cost for the same 20-year-old drug and dosage jumped to $10,320, even though he was covered by the same insurance.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/its-not-just-insulin-lawmakers-focus-on-price-of-one-drug-while-others-rise-too\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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 Rachana Pradhan for Kaiser Health News) Michael Costanzo, a Colorado farmer diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2016, has a<\/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-16856","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\/16856","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=16856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16857,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16856\/revisions\/16857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}