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Helping with health costs: prescription charge scrapped, providing cheaper medicine
18 May 2023 - The Chris Hipkins Government is reducing the cost of health care for New Zealand households by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 May 2023
Public Consultation: draft 2023-24 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS) for listing medicines on the PBS and designated vaccines on the NIP
12 May 2023 - Consultation on the draft 2023-24 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS) for listing medicines on the Pharmaceutical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Apr 2023
Cheaper medicines to ease cost of living
26 April 2023 - The Australian Government is easing cost of living pressures and making hundreds of common medicines cheaper, by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Mar 2023
By cutting insulin prices, Eli Lilly avoids paying big Medicaid rebates
6 March 2023 - Eli Lilly would’ve had to pay Medicaid about $150 for each vial of insulin used in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Mar 2023
AMA urges immediate action to save patients on PBS medicines
9 March 2023 - The AMA has urged all members of the Federal Parliament to support the AMA’s campaign to bring ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2023
3.2 million cheaper medicine in 2023
5 March 2023 - Australians are being encouraged to fill their prescriptions for medicines, especially as the maximum out of pocket ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2023
ABPI response to Government Statutory Scheme rise
2 March 2023 - The Government has confirmed plans to raise the revenue clawback rate paid by pharmaceutical firms subject ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2023
ABPI sets out new proposals to support the NHS and economic growth
1 March 2023 - The pharmaceutical industry’s offer includes an annual £1 billion boost to the NHS as well as an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Feb 2023
'Amazing coincidence' Moderna offered free vaccines when asked to testify, Bernie Sanders says
19 February 2023 - But it was "a step in the right direction," the independent senator said. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Feb 2023
‘Caught in the middle’: A battle between Vertex and insurers is leaving cystic fibrosis patients with crushing drug costs
20 February 2023 - Dan Brickey was stunned when he learned the news. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Feb 2023
1.6 million cheaper medicines in January
19 February 2023 - New analysis by the Department of Health and Aged Care shows that more than 1.6 million prescriptions ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Feb 2023
Annual private health insurance premium rise
6 February 2023 - The Australian Government is ensuring Australians get value for money from their private health insurance as the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2023
Smoothing Medicare Part D out of pocket costs under the Inflation Reduction Act
3 February 2023 - The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 marks the first major overhaul of the Medicare Part D prescription ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Feb 2023
ABPI response to new MHRA fees announced for 1 April 2023
1 February 2023 - These fee increases are an important step to ensuring the MHRA has the resources it needs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Feb 2023
Changes applying to evaluation of new substances for listed medicines
1 February 2023 - The TGA has introduced Mandatory requirements for applications to vary the Permissible Ingredients Determination under section 26BD ...