the likelihood of visiting the emergency room for care increases drastically. These affordability challenges are a significant health equity issue. Black and Latinx residents in Massachusetts are more likely to cut pills in half, skip a dose, or not fill a prescription due to cost (36%) than ...
With prescription drug spending up 17.4% in 1999 according to Express Scripts, healthcare payers are taking the initiative. There is no one-size-fits-all answer, but new strategies are starting to...
The growing cost of prescription medications continues to be a source of concern for lawmakers, patients, and providers, yet pharmacists can play a crucial role in ensuring that patients have access to the treatment they need. Congressional Democrats, Republicans, and the Trump administration are all...
Prescription drug costs consumed 8.3% of total health care expenditures in the U.S. in 1999, and when the numbers are in for 2000, that share is projected to jump another six-tenths of a percent. Over the last five years, the average cost of providing a prescription drug benefit nearly ...
The Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), which advises President Donald Trump on fiscal policy, recently addressed these concerns by releasing a report detailing the government’s plan to decrease the cost of prescription drugs, while continuing to promote innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. Al...
"That is going to ensure that the actual cost of goods is what the price is predicated on,", Auchincloss said. He added that the bill's reimbursement model is most relevant to generic rather than branded prescription drugs. Pharmacies are typically paid using a complicated system not directly...
Alot of attention and a bevy of proposals have focused on the rising cost of drugs, among all Americans, including older adults covered by Medicare. But are these costs really rising as fast as people think? Or is the concern over drug spending due to something I call the prescription es...
Addressing the challenge of high-priced prescription drugs in the era of precision medicine: A systematic review of drug life cycles, therapeutic drug markets and regulatory frameworks Recent public outcry has highlighted the rising cost of prescription drugs worldwide, which in several disease areas ...
In response to a growing trend of pharmaceutical price gouging, several presidential candidates have released plans1to limit the rising cost of pharmaceuticals, some of which specifically target large pharmaceutical entities that have demonstrated a strategic preference for acquiring smaller drug companies ...
The cost of generic oral and injectable drugs increased annually by 4.4 percent and 7.3 percent, respectively. The growth indrug costsfor all categories outpaced inflation. ©2019 Philly.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.