While insurance companies pay much of the cost of orphan drugs that treat rare childhood diseases, families’ share of the cost has risen rapidly. In fact, the mean out-of-pocket spending on orphan drugs for children rose to $866 in 2018, up fr...
Joe Lombardo rightly vetoed this bill...Regardless of where one falls on the political spectrum, everyone in this state should agree that regulating away the private market entities that help restrain the drug companies’ ability to rig prices higher shouldn’t be the answer. And yet, that’s...
the government’s bargaining power is reduced. There are private insurance companies that refuse to pay outright, so the bill fails in the hands of the government, who then must make economical choices. This system fostered by Canada allows us to always offer lower priced medications not only ...
The FCA imposes liability on anyone who “knowingly” submits a “false” claim to federal governmental payors.13 The whistleblowers claimed that the pharmacies violated the FCA by offering prescription drugs at discounted prices to customers while improperly charging higher rates to governmental payors...
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/drug-maker-actelion-agrees-pay-360-million-resolve-false-claims-act-liability-paying. Accessed April 19, 2019. 8. US Department of Justice. Three pharmaceutical companies agree to pay a total of over $122 million to resolve allegations that they paid kickbacks...
begun to provide differ- entiated education is the creation of new classes focusing on advocacy.1 Pharmacists increasingly need to advocate both for their own professional goals and for patients, who may need an expert to justify the reimbursement of a particular medication from an insurance ...
This chapter examines the continuing corporatization in the American healthcare system. First, the upsurge in consolidation is revealed through the merger and acquisition activity of each segment of the industry: pharmaceutical firms, insurers, hospitals
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