{"id":19899,"date":"2022-06-22T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19899"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T14:13:39","slug":"mark-cubans-generic-drug-prices-would-save-medicare-billions-of-dollars-harvard-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19899","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban&#8217;s generic drug prices would save Medicare billions of dollars: Harvard study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(by Paige Twenter for Beckers Hospital Review)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicare recipients could have saved up to $3.6 billion on generic drug costs in 2020 if Medicare paid the same prices as investor Mark Cuban&#8217;s pharmacy, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/M22-0756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>&nbsp;published June 20 in&nbsp;<em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pharmacy, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., has quickly gained speed from about 100 generic drugs at its launch in January to more than 700 generic drugs six months later.\u00a0Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/mark-cuban-s-generic-drug-prices-would-save-medicare-billions-of-dollars-harvard-study.html\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7795\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/drugs-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:&nbsp;<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(by Paige Twenter for Beckers Hospital Review) Medicare recipients could have saved up to $3.6 billion on generic drug costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19909,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899\/revisions\/19909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}