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Sanders and Klobuchar reintroduce legislation to cut drug prices in half
4 May 2023 - Bill Would Allow Medicare to Pay Same Prices as Veterans Affairs. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 May 2023
Canada’s health minister denies interfering in agency’s efforts to lower drug costs
27 April 2023 - Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says he has not exercised any undue political pressure on the independent ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Apr 2023
Prioritising patients in negotiations over drug pricing
14 April 2023 - Overpaying for medicines diverts funds away from other treatments and services. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Apr 2023
Falling insulin prices — what just happened?
19 April 2023 - Recently, more than 100 years after insulin was developed, manufacturers announced price reductions for insulin products. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Apr 2023
ICER publishes white paper evaluating best practices and potential reforms for white bagging, brown bagging, and site of service policies that seek to address high markup in drug prices
19 April 2023 - White bagging, brown bagging, and site of service policies developed by payers can reduce significant markup costs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Apr 2023
TLV has decided on an increase in ceiling prices
12 April 2023 - TLV has decided to increase ceiling prices in certain package size groups. The decision to raise ceiling ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Apr 2023
ICER publishes 2023 research protocol for assessing unsupported price increases on prescription drugs
11 April 2023 - Annual unsupported price increase report to be published on December 12. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Apr 2023
How big pharma games the system — and keeps drugs prices high
11 April 2023 - Layers of market protections and courtroom tricks keep competitors off the market far longer than rules intended, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Apr 2023
Are German drug pricing regulations chasing some drug makers away, causing them to withdraw products from the market?
5 April 2023 - Germany’s pharmaceutical market is the most important one on the European continent. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Mar 2023
Does insulin price reduction suggest a path forward for lowering drug costs?
29 March 2023 - The crisis in cost of medications has increasingly focused on insulin. The Inflation Reduction Act caps insulin ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2023
Biden says he wants to bring down drug prices. His actions tell a different story.
24 March 2023 - You might get the impression from the Biden administration’s insulin price cut and its initiative allowing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2023
TLV is preparing for an increase in ceiling prices
17 March 2023 - In order to ensure continued good access to medicines for patients, TLV started in the autumn of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2023
Drug makers push back on a clever tactic employers use to avoid paying for specialty medicines
22 March 2023 - In the face of rising drug prices, health plan sponsors have quietly used a clever, but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Mar 2023
Moderna expects to price its COVID vaccine at about $130 in the US
20 March 2023 - Moderna expects to price its COVID-19 vaccine at around $130 per dose in the US going ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Mar 2023
Diabetes treatment can be incredibly costly. But the biggest cost is (surprisingly) not insulin.
19 March 2023 - Millions of Americans with diabetes have cheered as drug makers slashed the price of insulin, the ...