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Response to the Grattan Institute Report on medicine prices
6 March 2017 - Medicines Australia does not accept the findings of this latest inaccurate, selective and misleading Grattan Report ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2017
Australians paying four times above international prices for drugs
5 March 2017 - Yet another report from the Grattan Institute on the prices of off-patent medicines in the PBS; ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2017
Bupa head tackles government for further reductions on costly prostheses
9 February 2017 - Bupa is calling on the Turnbull government to further reform medical device prices as the health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2017
Health insurers seek a halt to ‘$800m prosthetics wastage’
8 February 2017 - Health insurers have renewed calls for the federal government to address the high cost of prostheses, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Feb 2017
Senate inquiry on prostheses pricing urged to consider implications
31 January 2017 - AusBiotech has made a submission to the Senate’s Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the ‘Price ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2017
Indicative 1 April 2017 prices - 2017 April cycle
23 January 2017 - Indicative 1 April 2017 prices resulting from the 2017 April cycle of price disclosure have now been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Dec 2016
Price disclosure 2017 April cycle outcomes summary
15 December 2016 - The summary of price disclosure price reductions for the 2017 April cycle (second remove originator cycle) has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2016
Australians set to be slugged for skin cancer removal under Medicare changes
9 December 2016 - Patients may be facing huge bills to have a skin cancer removed under changes to Medicare ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Nov 2016
New website offers prescription drugs at cost prices, undercutting pharmacies
24 November 2016 - “When a patient comes to us for help, money is the last thing on our minds,” ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Nov 2016
Pharmacy price wars heat up
22 November 2016 - A new online competitor is promising the cheapest prescription medication in Australia, but doctors are warning it ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Nov 2016
Update to PBS Pricing Fact sheet on 'Setting an approved ex manufacturer price for new or extended listings’
15 November 2016 - The PBS Pricing Fact sheet on ‘Setting an approved ex manufacturer price for new or extended listings’ ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Nov 2016
Why big data should make insurance cheaper
13 November 2016 - Big data should mean lower average insurance premiums, according to a new report by the Actuaries ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Nov 2016
Medibank’s Drummond: prostheses savings ‘just the start’
10 November 2016 - Medibank chief Craig Drummond has warned market conditions will continue to be challenged as he flags ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Nov 2016
Graeme Samuel urges cuts to price-fixing prostheses list
8 November 2016 - A top consultant to the federal government on health reform, former competition boss Graeme Samuel, has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Oct 2016
Cutting medical device and prostheses costs should lower health premiums, says minister
19 October 2016 - Health minister Sussan Ley says insurers should pass on savings on items like pacemakers and artificial hips ...