{"id":5584,"date":"2017-01-13T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2017-01-13T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:22:47","slug":"cvs-slashes-price-of-substitute-epipen-auto-injectors-to-109-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5584","title":{"rendered":"CVS slashes price of substitute EpiPen auto-injectors to $109.99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">C<\/span>VS Health announced Thursday morning that it has cut the price of two-packs of epinephrine auto-injectors to\u00a0$109.99 \u2014 roughly the price that brand-name EpiPen shots were selling for eight years ago, before their escalating price became a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/21\/mylan-ceo-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">hot political issue<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/01\/12\/cvs-generic-epinephrine\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--T6SjhB6vrYKoUphEVSQ6vOho09hcOWLF0BwCzjH64nzLJDLJee-9PTuAiqF8owlnchsxx5Gra7-dJKT4NoUvCVWVHuQ&amp;_hsmi=40609549\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for STAT) CVS Health announced Thursday morning that it has cut the price of two-packs of epinephrine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","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=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}