• U.S. spending on pharmaceuticals exceeded $450 billion in 2016. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The article also cites the Health Care Transformation Task Force's "ACOs Reduced Direct Medicare Spending by $836 Million in 2016" report. (leavittpartners.com)
  • If we fast forward to 2016, we're now up to 42% of the drugs are specialty drugs and 58% are nonspecialty drugs, so that proportion of spend is more and more being influenced by specialty drugs, and specialty drugs cost more. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • Data compiled by The New York Times suggests 2016 saw the largest annual increase in drug overdose deaths ever recorded in the U.S. (truthdig.com)
  • New data collected and analyzed by The New York Times suggests that 2016 had the largest annual increase in drug overdose deaths ever recorded in the United States, with deaths likely exceeding 59,000. (truthdig.com)
  • If this number is accurate, deaths due to drug overdose rose by almost 20 percent from 2015 to 2016. (truthdig.com)
  • The Times writes that while heroin often is the cause of drug overdose deaths, the 2016 spike in drug overdose deaths is also linked to the spread of fentanyl , a synthetic prescription painkiller that has made headlines for its abundance-and its deadliness. (truthdig.com)
  • In 2016 alone, spending on prescription drugs topped $328 billion. (medscape.com)
  • Between premiums, deductibles and co-pays, a typical family of four will directly pay US$11,000 of the estimated $27,000 it is expected to spend on health care in 2017, up 22 percent since 2013. (theconversation.com)
  • Trends in Medicare Part B Spending on Discarded Drugs, 2017-2020. (bvsalud.org)
  • Spending fell to negative 3% in 2017 after the impact of those therapies were absorbed and then spending leveled out in 2018 and 2019. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • However, the Times concludes that "early data from 2017 suggests that drug overdose deaths will continue to rise this year. (truthdig.com)
  • At the request of McCaskill, minority staff of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs reviewed price increases for the 5-year-period, 2012 to 2017, across the top 20 most-prescribed brand-name drugs for seniors in the Medicare Part D program. (medscape.com)
  • Prices increased for every drug on the list between 2012 and 2017. (medscape.com)
  • Although 48 million fewer prescriptions were written for the top 20 most commonly prescribed brand-name drugs for seniors between 2012 and 2017, total sales revenue resulting from these prescriptions increased by almost $8.5 billion during the same period. (medscape.com)
  • In 2015, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a similar analysis of outpatient pharmacy costs for Medicare Part B and found that "there is a financial incentive at hospitals participating in the 340B program to prescribe more drugs or more expensive drugs to Medicare beneficiaries. (phrma.org)
  • Milliman used commercial market data and found similar patterns in the per-patient hospital outpatient pharmacy spending to those the GAO highlighted in Medicare Part B. The Milliman study found average per patient outpatient drug spending for commercially insured patients at 340B DSH hospitals is nearly three times the spending at non-340B DSH hospitals ($457 and $159, respectively). (phrma.org)
  • In response, Pew's drug spending research initiative developed a series of fact sheets that examine many of these policies and focus on two areas: increasing competition and reforming Medicare Part D. Each fact sheet summarizes the policy proposal, evaluates its potential to manage drug spending, and outlines key issues for policymakers to consider. (pewtrusts.org)
  • In 2015, eight of the 10 highest-expenditure drugs in Medicare Part B were biological products, and growth in the spending on biologics has exceeded 10 percent for each of the past five years. (pewtrusts.org)
  • This testimony discusses the key role of Medicare Part D drug coverage in giving beneficiaries access to innovative drug treatments. (gao.gov)
  • GAO found plan sponsors-private companies that provide voluntary Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage-received $48.6 billion in rebates from drug manufacturers in 2021. (gao.gov)
  • Beneficiary use of highly rebated drugs had different spending implications for plan sponsors, beneficiaries, and Medicare. (gao.gov)
  • This may lower Medicare drug spending, as its plan sponsor payments are based on drug costs after rebates. (gao.gov)
  • The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses drug rebate data to help ensure its plan sponsor payments are accurate, but CMS officials stated they do not use this data in its oversight of plan formularies. (gao.gov)
  • Such monitoring of rebates will be particularly important as the agency implements the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which will change Part D plan sponsor, beneficiary, and Medicare drug spending responsibility and may affect formulary design and rebates. (gao.gov)
  • This testimony summarizes the information contained in GAO's September 2023 report, entitled Medicare Part D: CMS Should Monitor Effects of Rebates on Plan Formularies and Beneficiary Spending ( GAO-23-105270 ). (gao.gov)
  • reports that it is apparent drug companies "fear" Vice President Al Gore's Medicare prescription drug plan "could lead to price controls. (californiahealthline.org)
  • Gore's plan would provide a drug benefit directly under Medicare, while Texas Gov. George W. Bush's (R) plan would rely on an "array of insurers and HMOs" to offer prescription drug coverage, allowing drug companies to "retain much control over the prices. (californiahealthline.org)
  • They're very] worried about the idea of Medicare directly purchasing prescription drugs. (californiahealthline.org)
  • Furthermore, although three months ago Bush "had no plan to provide" a Medicare prescription drug benefit and "was badly trailing" Gore on the issue, he has since made up lost ground. (californiahealthline.org)
  • compares how the Pozzas would fare under both Gore's and Bush's Medicare prescription drug benefit plans, determining that in the "short run, because of their Social Security income level, only the Gore plan would help them -- if Congress actually agreed to pay its much heftier price in full. (californiahealthline.org)
  • New estimates released this week by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) show that annual growth in U.S. health care spending increased to 5.3 percent in 2014, up from 2.9 percent in 2013, after five consecutive years of historically low growth. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Democrats are advancing a plan to negotiate the prices of drugs Medicare spends the most on, potentially saving billions of dollars annually. (bgov.com)
  • Medicine administered in a doctor's office is paid for under Part B of Medicare, and drugs obtained through a pharmacy are paid for under Part D. (bgov.com)
  • Medicare could negotiate some of the most costly prescription drugs' prices under a plan advancing in Congress. (bgov.com)
  • Bloomberg Government identified 20 drugs in the latest Medicare data that would most likely be affected, though no formal selection has been made. (bgov.com)
  • The list includes the macular degeneration drug Eylea, made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. , which despite being 10 years old costs Medicare $10,851 per beneficiary. (bgov.com)
  • Medicare spent more than $4 billion on the drug in 2019, or $3,595 per beneficiary. (bgov.com)
  • Many of the drugs that cost Medicare $1 billion or more in 2019 are at least a decade old and have a single manufacturer, meaning they have no cheap generic alternative. (bgov.com)
  • Medicare could waste up to $605 million per year on the controversial Alzheimer's drug aducanumab if it is eventually approved for widespread use because it is supplied in vials containing fixed doses that may not be appropriate for all patients-resulting in the trashing of large volumes of unused drug, new UCLA research finds. (uclahealth.org)
  • Though Medicare has restricted the drug for use in clinical trials, this decision could be overturned by appeal or legal challenges. (uclahealth.org)
  • Previous UCLA research has found that ancillary care services associated with the medication alone could account for nearly 20% of Medicare costs for patients treated with the drug. (uclahealth.org)
  • Given Medicare's premium increase in 2022 partly due to aducanumab, greater focus on efficient vial packaging could improve the value of future Medicare spending, slow premium growth, and reduce beneficiaries' out‐of‐pocket costs. (uclahealth.org)
  • Based on the wasted drug calculated from each patient in the nationally representative survey sample, the authors then estimated the potential amount of drug wasted for the entire U.S. Medicare population of patients who could be expected to receive aducanumab each year. (uclahealth.org)
  • If approved for widespread use and assuming a 10% drug uptake, about 132,000 to 694,000 vials of the expensive drug would be discarded, amounting to $115 million to $605 million in wasted dollars by Medicare and its enrollees each year. (uclahealth.org)
  • Has Medicare Part D Reduced Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Prescription Drug Use and Spending? (hsr.org)
  • In 2014, these two sites accounted for 85% of commercial medical pharmacy benefit spending and 90% of Medicare medical pharmacy benefit spending. (drugchannels.net)
  • Medicare is the largest payer of provider-administered drugs. (drugchannels.net)
  • The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) mandates that Medicare use a drug's Average Sales Price (ASP) for reimbursing provider-administered injectable drugs. (drugchannels.net)
  • For these sites, 72% of payers follow Medicare and use the ASP benchmark for provider-administered specialty drug reimbursement. (drugchannels.net)
  • All of these drugs were covered under Medicare Part B. The medicines tended to be costly from the get-go. (medscape.com)
  • According to the most recent National Heath Expenditure data published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, retail prescription drug spending grew at an average pace of 4.8% between 2006 and 2015, with two of the highest-growth years occurring in 2014 and 2015 at 12.4% and 9.0%, respectively. (medscape.com)
  • Even with Medicare coverage, many older individuals also face substantial out-of-pocket costs, particularly for specialty and brand-name drugs. (medscape.com)
  • According to one independent study, Medicare beneficiaries' out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs is expected to increase from 41% of per capita Social Security income in 2013 to 50% in 2030, the report notes. (medscape.com)
  • Expenditures on prescription drugs are rising and are projected to continue to rise faster than overall health spending thereby increasing this sector's share of health care spending. (hhs.gov)
  • Expenditures on specialty drugs generally appear to be rising more rapidly than expenditures on other drugs, though estimates of specialty drug expenditures are highly sensitive to which drugs are considered "specialty" products. (hhs.gov)
  • Medicines account for the second-largest share of the nation's total health care spending, after hospital expenditures, and prescribed drugs represent almost 85% of the nation's total drug spending, reaching an estimated C$27.2 billion in 2011 and increasing by an estimated 4.7% over the previous year, the CIHI report shows. (pharmatimes.com)
  • While we didn't look at overall health expenditures in our paper, I suspect that the increased drug spending more than offset spending on other health care services. (drugchannels.net)
  • The average cost of a month's supply of a specialty drug exceeds $2,500, and the annual cost per course of treatment can reach $75,000, according to Buck. (cfo.com)
  • One reason for a lack of awareness: some companies that track specialty-drug spending look only at pharmacy benefits, ignoring the fact that more than half of specialty-drug utilization occurs through medical benefits , Burns says. (cfo.com)
  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is a familiar quote from the opening of Charles Dickens' " A Tale of Two Cities ," but the phrase is also applicable to the specialty drug market in the United States today. (theconversation.com)
  • Because drug deaths take a long time to certify, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will not be able to calculate final numbers until December. (truthdig.com)
  • I emailed Peter Cegielski, the team leader for drug-resistant TB at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the senior author on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publication. (cdc.gov)
  • Most companies understand the potential cost hit, as 77% of survey participants said they have drug-utilization-management policies such as requiring employees to obtain prior authorization. (cfo.com)
  • To evaluate whether edicare Part D has reduced racial/ethnic disparities in prescription drug utilization and spending. (hsr.org)
  • Despite significant outside influences on the cost of prescriptions, First Script's clients experienced a 5.3% decrease in drug utilization due to our management programs. (workcompwire.com)
  • Prescription drug cost sharing: Association with medication and medical utilization and spending health. (bvsalud.org)
  • The report also shows significant variations in spending on prescribed drugs across Canada's provinces last year, with per capita spending ranging from lows of C$576 in British Columbia and C$710 in Manitoba to highs of C$937 in New Brunswick and C$985 in Nova Scotia. (pharmatimes.com)
  • CIHI estimates that annual growth in per capita spending on prescribed drugs for the year varied from lows of 1.4% in British Columbia and 2% in Ontario to highs of 7.4% in Saskatchewan and 9.4% in Newfoundland and Labrador. (pharmatimes.com)
  • Moreover, the study finds Canada to have the second-highest drug spending per capita among eight comparator nations, all members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). (pharmatimes.com)
  • For employers, per capita health spending on an individual with a complex chronic illness is 8 times that of a healthy individual. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • The final budget will guide state spending from July 1 through June 30, 2021. (thecapitolist.com)
  • According to an HRI analysis of the OptumRx brand pipeline forecast from the first quarter of 2019, of the almost 300 drugs to be launched between 2019 and 2021, nearly two-thirds are specialty drugs. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • ASPE estimates that prescription drug spending in the United States was about $457 billion in 2015, or 16.7 percent of overall personal health care services. (hhs.gov)
  • Of that $457 billion, $328 billion (71.9 percent) was for retail drugs and $128 billion (28.1 percent) was for non-retail drugs. (hhs.gov)
  • Total spending on medicines is estimated to have reached C$32 billion in 2011, an increase of 4% over 2010 and equivalent to C$929 per Canadian for the year, says the report, from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). (pharmatimes.com)
  • In 2011, public-sector spending on prescribed medications is estimated to have reached C$12.1 billion, up 2.2% on the previous year, while private-sector spending increased 6.8% to reach a total of C$15.1 billion. (pharmatimes.com)
  • GP prescribing accounts for 70% of all NHS spending on drugs in Scotland and amounts to almost £1 billion year. (pharmatimes.com)
  • Total spending by NHS Scotland in 2011-12 reached £11.7 billion, of which £974 million was accounted for by drugs prescribed in general practice, with GPs issuing 91 million prescriptions during the period, says Audit Scotland. (pharmatimes.com)
  • New York, May 6 (IANS) Total global spending on cancer medicines - including therapeutic treatments and supportive care - have reached the $100-billion threshold in 2014, says a report. (mangalorean.com)
  • Research shows that this provision will also increase total U.S. spending on healthcare by $50 billion over the next two decades. (americansforprosperity.org)
  • The White House estimates the proposal would reduce government spending by about $100 billion over 10 years. (bgov.com)
  • Overall in 2015, the US price premium generated $116 billion, while the companies spend 66% of that amount - $76 billion on global R&D. (pharmaphorum.com)
  • On average the revenues generated were 163% of the global R&D spend, and lowering the premium so US revenues match R&D spend would have saved US patients, businesses and taxpayers $40 billion in 2015. (pharmaphorum.com)
  • Quarterly national spending on oral oncologics (the red line in the chart below) increased significantly during the study period, from $940.3 million to $1.4 billion. (drugchannels.net)
  • One of the provisions, approved by the House, would have triggered a special session so more legislators would help determine how federal stimulus money would be spent if more than $1 billion was awarded to Texas. (kxan.com)
  • Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Chairman Aaron Bean , R-Fernandina Beach, unveiled a proposed $39.4 billion spending plan in his committee Wednesday, topping the $38.7 billion plan that House Health Care Appropriations Chairwoman MaryLynn Magar , R-Tequesta, recommended Tuesday. (thecapitolist.com)
  • The National Nanotech nology Initiative, the federal government's coordinating body for nanotech nology R & D, has spent approximately $1 billion per year since 2001. (cdc.gov)
  • It's specialty and biologic drugs that are really taking a toll. (theconversation.com)
  • The situation for so-called orphan drugs, which are specialty biologic drugs used for rare diseases, is even worse. (theconversation.com)
  • Drugs approved in the last nine years, or 13 years for complex biologic drugs, would be excluded. (bgov.com)
  • Nearly half of the prescription pharmaceuticals that were the top 10 costliest to Medicare's outpatient drug and pharmacy benefits in 2019 could face negotiation, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis. (bgov.com)
  • With several other Alzheimer's drugs in the pipeline, aducanumab will not be the last infusion drug to threaten Medicare's budget ," said Dr. Carlos Irwin Oronce, an assistant project scientist in the UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research. (uclahealth.org)
  • Prescription drug spending in Canada is continuing to rise, but overall annual growth slowed last year to the lowest rate in 15 years, according to new figures. (pharmatimes.com)
  • But it will be impossible to control these spiraling costs without getting a handle on prescription drug spending, which is growing at a rate at least three times faster than every other major medical category. (theconversation.com)
  • The other significant driver of spending was rapid growth in prescription drug spending, reflecting in part the introduction of new and expensive hepatitis C drugs. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • In 2014 and 2015, prescription drug spending growth for private health insurance peaked, largely because of new expensive hepatitis C treatments. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • While the rise in corporate health-care costs has significantly moderated in 2014 and 2015, inflation in the cost of drugs continues to outpace the overall medical spending trend. (cfo.com)
  • and 30 percent to either changes in the composition of drugs prescribed toward higher price products or price increases for drugs that together drove average price increases in excess of general inflation. (hhs.gov)
  • Shopdog analyzed spending data from the Census to illustrate how American consumers are holding up under continued inflation. (onlinemadison.com)
  • This budget maintains our commitment to education, meets our obligations to vulnerable Texans, strengthens public safety and funds many other priorities - all within our constitutional spending limits and population times inflation. (kxan.com)
  • Over the past 5 years, the cost of many of the most popular brand-name prescription drugs used by older Americans increased at nearly 10 times the rate of inflation, according to a new report from US Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO). (medscape.com)
  • On average, prices for these drugs increased 12% every year for the last 5 years - roughly 10 times higher than the average annual rate of inflation. (medscape.com)
  • Specialty drugs, usually complex biologic products created by genetic alterations of living tissues or organisms, have revolutionized patient care by creating human proteins, enzymes and antibodies that can treat diseases much more specifically than previously. (theconversation.com)
  • Physician offices and hospital outpatient facilities are the two most crucial administration sites for such provider-administered drugs as biologicals, injectables, IVIG, immunoglobulins, and other products. (drugchannels.net)
  • examines the situation of John and Eleanor Pozza, a Pennsylvania couple who spend $4,000 per year on 14 medications. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The term orphan drug was codified in 1983 to describe medications intended to treat diseases so rare that pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to develop them. (theconversation.com)
  • Supporters say capping how much Ohio government agencies, including those overseeing Medicaid and workers' compensation, spend on prescription medications will save consumers money and ultimately push down the overall cost of medicine. (wcpo.com)
  • Each year in the US, about 1.3 million emergency department visits are due to adverse drug effects, mostly from blood thinners, diabetes medications, heart medications, seizure medications, and opioid painkillers. (sciencealert.com)
  • The province has legislated cost reductions for generic medications on the provincial drug benefits list: 56% of the comparable brand price (previously 75%) for medications introduced before the Oct. 1, 2009, cut-off date and 45% for those introduced after the date. (benefitscanada.com)
  • Approximately 50% of new medications in development are high-cost specialty drugs and biologics, such as Remicade. (benefitscanada.com)
  • This means, that money may be spent on medications that never provide their full value. (benefitscanada.com)
  • Shopdog analyzed spending data from the Census to illustrate consumers' reaction to inflated prices and higher borrowing costs in 2023. (onlinemadison.com)
  • However, signs are emerging from retailers that the typical American may be unable to keep spending on goods and services the same way in the second half of 2023. (onlinemadison.com)
  • CEN will use the grant to produce three workshops, 12 drag shows and a short documentary as part of the program, which will run from September 30 of this year through August 2023. (nationalfile.com)
  • As people with new coverage gained more affordable access to health care, spending in both private insurance and Medicaid grew. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • The CMS report shows that expanded coverage through both private insurance and Medicaid is lowering out-of-pocket spending for consumers. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Both chambers have proposed increased Medicaid spending on nursing-home care, as well as money to boost a fledgling drug-importation plan that lawmakers passed last year but is still awaiting federal implementation. (thecapitolist.com)
  • Both chambers have agreed in their spending plans to target money toward the state's Canadian prescription-drug importation efforts, with the Senate seeking $15 million. (thecapitolist.com)
  • While growth in total private insurance spending was higher in 2014 than in 2013, the rate of growth was the same or only slightly higher than in prior years, when the number of privately insured Americans was actually falling. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Even as overall spending flattens, Americans' online shopping habits have reverted to pre-pandemic trends. (onlinemadison.com)
  • Arlington, Va. - Americans for Prosperity commented today on proposals within Congress' partisan spending bill that would place price controls on prescription medicines and funnel billions in subsidies to insurance companies in part to subsidize health insurance for wealthy Americans. (americansforprosperity.org)
  • Congress has passed some truly awful legislation over the years, but nothing as potentially harmful to our health as allowing Washington to fix the price of prescription drugs and use the added revenue to subsidize health insurance for wealthy Americans. (americansforprosperity.org)
  • It's unconscionable for Congress to believe that putting government bureaucrats in control of our medicine cabinets will reduce prescription drug prices and preserve the level of access to lifesaving cures that Americans currently enjoy. (americansforprosperity.org)
  • Americans are taking more prescription drugs and staying on them for longer than ever before, according to new research. (sciencealert.com)
  • The share of Americans' lives spent simultaneously taking large numbers of drugs is substantial and expanded dramatically over time," writes Ho. (sciencealert.com)
  • The Fair Chance Act, which was tucked into the massive defense spending bill passed by Congress earlier this week, was part of a national campaign by criminal justice advocacy groups and like-minded lawmakers to "ban the box"-referring to the question on job applications about whether one has been convicted of a crime-and reduce barriers to employment for an estimated 70 million Americans with criminal records. (reason.com)
  • The Center for Public Integrity today shared findings from its study on the drug industry's lobbying efforts. (thedailyheadache.com)
  • The findings reveal a steep increase in prescription drug use among both sexes, nearly every age group, and all considered races, but especially among older, White women. (sciencealert.com)
  • Findings on the effectiveness of methadone therapy in reducing criminal activities related to heroin use justify increased investments in drug courts. (oceanhillsrecovery.com)
  • With costs for specialty drugs showing no signs of decreasing, we could easily see the average percentage of total health-care spend employers are paying for pharmacy increase … to 20%," says Buck principal Paul Burns. (cfo.com)
  • Overall, while pharmacy costs still account on average for less than one-fifth of health-care spending, controlling them is among the most effective ways to reign in the overall expense. (cfo.com)
  • Allowing prescription drugs to be purchased and imported from abroad has the potential to lower health care costs in the U.S. In the short term, patients could access some medicines at lower prices, since brand pharmaceuticals are generally more expensive in the United States than in other high-income countries, in part because some nations have taken steps to limit drug prices. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Household spending on health care costs such as copays, deductibles, coinsurance, and spending on uncovered services slowed somewhat, from 2.1 percent in 2013 to 1.3 percent in 2014 (Exhibit 1) . (commonwealthfund.org)
  • It's not clear whether privately insured people also reduced health care use, and thus lowered their out-of-pocket spending, because of high deductibles documented in other recent research. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • House and Senate budget writers have rolled out health-care spending plans for the coming year that would set aside money in key areas such as nursing homes and drug importation but still have wide differences. (thecapitolist.com)
  • To the extent that 'free care' is financed through higher fees charged to patients paying through insurance or out-of-pocket, including imputed dollar values for free-from-provider as a source of payment counts some health care 'spending' twice. (cdc.gov)
  • Earlier diagnosis, longer treatment duration and increased effectiveness of drug therapies are contributing to rising levels of spending on medicines for cancer care, according to the report released by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics - a leading global information and technology services company. (mangalorean.com)
  • Targeted therapies, which take aim at specific drivers of cancer, now account for almost half of total spending. (mangalorean.com)
  • Many of the drugs that have been granted accelerated approvals do not have marked advantages to existing therapies, and further testing of these drugs to confirm benefit is associated with financial risk for the manufacturers. (medscape.com)
  • besides the slow growth of the US biosimilar market, the report cited new costly therapies, mainly specialty drugs, as well as a drop-off in the impact of lower-cost generics. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • In a Buck Consultants survey of 170 organizations, 77% of them said they spent at least 16% of total heath-care costs on pharmacy benefits in 2014. (cfo.com)
  • A recent analysis by Milliman , commissioned by PhRMA, found hospitals participating in the 340B drug pricing program have higher per patient outpatient pharmacy costs for their commercially-insured patients than their non-340B counterparts. (phrma.org)
  • Coverage is provided by private insurance plans that vary in their costs and lists of covered drugs-known as "formularies. (gao.gov)
  • Thus drugs with higher gross costs generally result in higher beneficiary payments relative to payments for competing drugs with lower gross costs. (gao.gov)
  • That changed with the passage of the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 , which allowed special grants for research, a 50 percent tax credit on trial costs, shorter FDA approval times and a guaranteed seven years of patent exclusivity. (theconversation.com)
  • A new report has questioned pharma's rationale for charging substantially more for drugs in the US, saying the revenues generated as a result far exceed R&D costs. (pharmaphorum.com)
  • Pharma's justification for high US prices has been that they are needed to cover R&D costs - but the new analysis from the journal Health Affairs has found that in some cases, revenues from the US price premium can amount to more than double the R&D spend. (pharmaphorum.com)
  • Amgen and Pfizer's revenues were in the same ball park compared with global R&D revenues, while at the other end of the scale, AZ barely covered its R&D costs through pricing US products higher, with Novartis and Bristol-Myers Squibb needing revenues from elsewhere to fully cover the research spend. (pharmaphorum.com)
  • Studies show that treatment costs cut drug abuse in half thus lowering criminal activity and reducing arrests. (oceanhillsrecovery.com)
  • A RevCycleIntelligence article entitled "CMS Targets Value-Based Purchasing, Drug Costs to Reduce Spending" references the Leavitt Partners "Accountable Care Organizations and Risk-Based Payment Arrangements: Strong Preference for Upside-Only Contracts" white paper. (leavittpartners.com)
  • On Drug Channels, I highlight the two primary reasons pharmaceutical manufacturers' list prices don't represent what third-party payers actually spend for drugs: (1) channel intermediaries add markups that account for the costs, profits, and value of the channel's services, and (2) manufacturers provide rebates and discounts to third-party payers. (drugchannels.net)
  • As I show below, the reimbursement approaches that commercial payers use permit hospitals to get paid two to three times as much as physician offices-and to inflate drug costs by thousands of dollars per claim. (drugchannels.net)
  • It may come as no surprise that these physicians neglect the pricing behavior of their own employers, ignore the hospital-related factors affecting payers' spending, and fail to examine drugs' true net costs. (drugchannels.net)
  • Even with the high prices of drugs, only 3/10 recover their costs. (theadvocates.org)
  • Although these drugs are high cost initially, their high impact could reduce employer costs over the long term. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • We do NOT want you to count health insurance premiums, over the counter drugs, or costs that you will be reimbursed for. (cdc.gov)
  • Soaring drug prices are driving up healthcare costs each year, the report notes. (medscape.com)
  • McCaskill has made tackling rising healthcare and prescription drug costs a top priority in the Senate. (medscape.com)
  • In addition, McCaskill's bipartisan legislation to boost competition for generic drugs and help lower prescription costs was signed into law by Trump. (medscape.com)
  • The rebates may lower premiums, but they don't reduce beneficiaries' payments for the drugs. (gao.gov)
  • We found that plans paid less for highly rebated drugs than beneficiaries did. (gao.gov)
  • GAO found payments by beneficiaries were more than plan sponsor payments, after accounting for rebates, for 79 of the 100 drugs receiving the most rebates. (gao.gov)
  • During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Canada's spending on prescribed drugs experienced double-digit increases but spending is now slowing down, says Michael Hunt, director of pharmaceuticals and health workforce information services at CIHI. (pharmatimes.com)
  • Why did drug spending increase during the 1990s? (lu.se)
  • Campaign finance reports filed Thursday show Ohioans Against the Deceptive Rx Ballot Issue has spent $39.4 million against Issue 2 since July. (wcpo.com)
  • At the time of the tragedy, Brown was spending upwards of $5,000 a week on drugs, according to the snitch. (radaronline.com)
  • Can employers lower drug spending by limiting PBM involvement in health plans? (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • However, actions that employers used in the past to contain spending will no longer work in the face of higher prices that increase spending, the report says. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • In 2010, he said, "about 20% of what employers were spending was for specialty drugs and about 80% was for nonspecialty drugs. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • Biological products, or biologics, are drugs made up of proteins or other materials derived from living cells through a complex manufacturing process. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The first study to estimate the lifelong burden of prescription drugs in the United States predicts that babies born in 2019 will spend half their lives taking meds of some sort under doctor's orders. (sciencealert.com)
  • The study was conducted by sociologist Jessica Ho from Pennsylvania State University and is based on data from 1996 to 2019, which was taken from a long-running, annual national survey on annual drug use in the US. (sciencealert.com)
  • By 2019, men and women above the age of 50 could expect to take five or more drugs for around half their remaining lives. (sciencealert.com)
  • The average, male baby born in 2019, for instance, could expect to take prescription drugs for 37 years of his life in Ho's study. (sciencealert.com)
  • By comparison, a female baby born in 2019 was expected to take prescription drugs for 48 years of her life. (sciencealert.com)
  • And describe the role of patient beliefs and expectations and value of exercise, education, and non-opioid drug treatments and the management of muscular skeletal pain complaints. (cdc.gov)
  • Many of these drugs represent key therapeutic advances over the standard of care for the treatment of specific cancers. (drugchannels.net)
  • Only 40% of a set of drugs granted accelerated approvals in the United States and 39% of those given similar speedy clearances in the European Union had 'high added' therapeutic value, in an analysis reported by Thomas J. Hwang, MD, of Harvard Medical School and co-authors in JAMA Health Forum . (medscape.com)
  • For drugs with initial approvals for cancer indications, 33.3% (16 of 48) in the US had high added therapeutic value and 30.8% (12 of 39) in the EU. (medscape.com)
  • She joined Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) to launch an in-depth investigation into prescription drug price increases and recently introduced legislation to end taxpayer subsidies to end taxpayer subsidies drug companies receive for the billions of dollars they spend on prescription drug advertising each year, which currently is fully tax-deductible. (medscape.com)
  • Consumer spending has steadily shifted from retail to e-commerce since Jeff Bezos had the idea to sell books online in 1994. (onlinemadison.com)
  • MDR TB which is also resistant to a fluoroquinolone and any second-line injectable drug, is called XDR TB, which means extensively drug resistant. (cdc.gov)
  • Before the act, the FDA approved 34 drugs that would have qualified as orphan drugs from 1967 to 1983. (theconversation.com)
  • The legislation would exempt orphan drugs, which treat rare diseases with narrow indications. (bgov.com)
  • Generic and biosimilar manufacturers, or drug developers, report that they have been unable to purchase samples of innovator drugs for their product development. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The share of total Canadian health dollars spent on medicines last year is put at 16%, the same percentage which was spent on drugs 10 years ago, the report notes. (pharmatimes.com)
  • The latter half of the last decade also saw slower growth in the use of antihypertensive drugs and cholesterol-lowerers in Canada, the report notes. (pharmatimes.com)
  • These have had an impact on quality and spending," says the report, which goes on to note that overall spending on drugs is lower in Scotland - and in the UK - than in other European Union (EU) countries. (pharmatimes.com)
  • 1. Ten years ago, Caterpillar - a leading manufacturer of construction equipment - assessed its employee drug plan and estimated as much as one-fourth of its $150 million drug spending was wasted, according to the report. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • The report, titled " War Comes Home ," finds that SWAT teams, equipped with assault rifles and armored vehicles, are mostly used to search suspected drug offenders' homes, rather than rescuing hostages or stopping active shooters. (thenation.com)
  • Note that the Magellan report found that buy-and-bill accounted for only 70% of physician office medical benefit drug volume. (drugchannels.net)
  • Slow uptake of biosimilars, among other factors, will help propel drug spending over the next 7 years, according to a report released this week by PwC's Health Research Institute (HRI). (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • The report, called Behind the Numbers , said the impact of higher drug spending and other factors will cause a slight rise in the medical cost trend for 2020. (centerforbiosimilars.com)
  • This report demonstrates that the pricing decisions made by these drug companies are outrageous. (medscape.com)
  • For women, the largest increases in drug prescriptions were for antidepressants. (sciencealert.com)
  • Twelve of the 20 most commonly prescribed brand-name drugs for seniors had price increases of over 50% during the 5-year period. (medscape.com)
  • The overall cost of drug abuse and drug-related crime is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. (oceanhillsrecovery.com)
  • It also finds that the public-private split for prescribed drug spending has remained relatively stable over the last 10 years, with an estimated 45% of prescribed medicines being financed by the public sector and the remaining 55% by the private sector. (pharmatimes.com)
  • Democrats reached a compromise on their drug proposal that would allow the government to negotiate prices of medicines at least nine years out from their initial approval date. (bgov.com)
  • Compared to White people, Ho found Black people and Hispanic people spend longer periods of their lives taking no prescription medicines at all. (sciencealert.com)
  • But while it's true that many prescription medicines can help manage disease and improve health and life expectancy, more drugs isn't necessarily better. (sciencealert.com)
  • The study focused on 16 drugs, of which 15 were cancer medicines. (medscape.com)
  • Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) compares drugs, devices or other medical tests and procedures to determine the most effective outcomes for patient populations. (globenewswire.com)
  • CER presents an opportunity for drug companies to prove that their products are not only more effective than their competitors, but could also prove better patient outcomes -- such as longer life spans -- and more cost-effective in the long run. (globenewswire.com)
  • Older people are particularly vulnerable to negative drug outcomes as they not only take more medication in general, but they are also more likely to forget when or how to take the drugs. (sciencealert.com)
  • My $0.02: More spending led to better clinical outcomes for patients. (drugchannels.net)
  • However, rebates do not lower individual beneficiary payments for drugs, as these are based on the gross cost of the drug before accounting for rebates. (gao.gov)
  • GAO found that rebates may influence formulary design in ways that could affect beneficiary access for certain drugs. (gao.gov)
  • Scottish general practice drug spending fell 11% in real terms between 2004 and 2011, despite the volume of prescriptions rising 33% over the period, Audit Scotland has reported. (pharmatimes.com)
  • Five measures are examined: filling any prescriptions during the year, the number of prescriptions filled, total annual prescription spending, annual out‐of‐pocket prescription spending, and average copay level. (hsr.org)
  • For ispanics, estimates suggest that the program reduced the disparities in annual number of prescriptions filled, annual total and out‐of‐pocket spending on prescription drugs by 2.9 ( = .077), $282 ( = .019) and $143 ( (hsr.org)
  • Other noteworthy articles look at specialty copay coupons , the "value for money" of specialty drugs , and payer management tools . (drugchannels.net)
  • CMS conducts an annual clinical formulary review, which includes reviewing if formularies include commonly prescribed drug classes. (gao.gov)
  • The issue includes National Trends In Spending On And Use Of Oral Oncologics, First Quarter 2006 Through Third Quarter 2011 , an article I co-authored with Rena Conti, Ph.D., a health economist at the University of Chicago, and Sumita Bhatta, MD, a former oncology fellow at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. (drugchannels.net)
  • In our Health Affairs paper, we look at 47 oral oncologics and describe national trends in spending an usage between the first quarter of 2006 and the third quarter of 2011. (drugchannels.net)
  • Spending levels and trends were driven by the use of new brand-name oral oncologics. (drugchannels.net)
  • This cross-sectional study quantifies trends in discarded drug spending since the onset of mandated reporting . (bvsalud.org)
  • In fiscal year 2014 there were 21 such settlements involving 20 different branded drugs. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Based on 2009 OECD data - the most recent year for which figures are available - the US had the highest per capital total drug spending, at C$1,145, followed by Canada at C$890 and France at C$767. (pharmatimes.com)
  • Caterpillar now saves $5 million to $10 million a year on cholesterol-lowering drugs alone, according to Todd Bisping, a global benefits manager at the company. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • The average orphan drug cost $111,820 per person per year in 2014 . (theconversation.com)
  • In contrast, from 2008 to 2011, private insurance enrollment was falling (by as much as -3.2 percent in 2009) while spending was growing from 3.5 to 4.6 percent per year. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • A man who admitted to using those deadly drugs with Bobbi Kristina Brown spoke out as the 21 year old was still clinging to life at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital, surrounded by family and friends including her devastated father, Bobby Brown . (radaronline.com)
  • Forty-five new drugs for cancer hit the market between 2010 and 2014, including 10 last year alone. (mangalorean.com)
  • Spending for in-person and online goods and services has moderated over the past year after seeing outsized growth during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic. (onlinemadison.com)
  • However, multiple generic drugmakers are challenging a patent that won't expire until 2027, which could make a cheaper version available as soon as 2025, the year drug price negotiation starts under the bill. (bgov.com)
  • Those of us working within the employee benefits field will undoubtedly remember 2010 as a year that ushered in significant drug reforms and made employee benefits plans front-page news. (benefitscanada.com)
  • Spending in the US will increase by an average of 1-4% per year over the next five years despite the patent expirations as a result of the Affordable Care Act and new drugs coming on to the market. (chemistryworld.com)
  • State-owned higher education institutions were told to cut their budgets last year during the pandemic, but the state spending plan did not fully make up for those losses. (kxan.com)
  • Hall of Famer John Stockton spent his entire 19-year playing career with the Utah Jazz, while Tim Duncan also played 19 years solely for the San Antonio Spurs, and Reggie Miller spent 18 NBA seasons with the Indiana Pacers. (wikipedia.org)
  • They are a first look at the extent of the drug overdose epidemic last year, a detailed accounting of a modern plague. (truthdig.com)
  • That's exactly what's happening in the prescription drug industry, where the cost of identical drugs skyrockets year after year. (medscape.com)
  • Trump added, "That is why I have directed my administration to make fixing the injustice of high drug prices one of my top priorities for the year. (medscape.com)
  • In particular, sharing such information with a PBM "helps ensure medical conditions are treated with pharmaceuticals when appropriate - by sharing data, a PBM can help identify gaps in care - and helps the PBM identify and intervene on potential drug-condition safety concerns," says Anna Goldbeck, another principal in Buck's pharmacy practice. (cfo.com)
  • The remaining spend was primarily via home infusion/specialty pharmacy. (drugchannels.net)
  • McCaskill has also introduced legislation with Collins to prohibit pharmacy gag laws that lead to consumers overpaying for prescription drugs. (medscape.com)
  • It's early in the annual legislative session, with plenty of time to work out deals, but the initial budget proposals included a spending gap between the House and Senate. (thecapitolist.com)
  • The release of the initial spending proposals this week begins the process of the House and Senate negotiating the only bill they are required to pass during the 60-day legislative session: the general appropriations act, better known as the budget. (thecapitolist.com)
  • While prescribed drug spending is influenced by many factors, slower growth in Ontario and British Columba suggests that their earlier implement of generic pricing policies may be having an impact," comments Michael Gaucher, manager, pharmaceuticals, at CIHI. (pharmatimes.com)
  • Gender differences in drug use are multifaceted and related to many factors, including the fact that contraceptives remain largely targeted toward women," Ho writes . (sciencealert.com)
  • The drug comes in fixed-dose vial sizes - 170 mg/1.7 mL and 300 mg/3.0 mL - that are administered based on a patient's weight and other factors such as amyloid plaque rates. (uclahealth.org)
  • PETTS was a prospective observational study of patients with MDR TB in 9 countries, studying risk factors for, and the consequences of acquired drug resistance in the treatment of MDR TB. (cdc.gov)
  • The drug importation program is a high priority for DeSantis, who has worked closely with the Trump administration to pass rules needed to make the effort a reality. (thecapitolist.com)
  • Of the eight comparator countries, Canada had the second-lowest share of total drug expenditure financed by the public sector in 2009, at 38.8% of the total, compared with a high of 84.7% in the UK, CIHI reports. (pharmatimes.com)
  • For example, total private insurance spending rose 4.4 percent in 2014, up from 1.6 percent in 2013, as enrollment climbed by 1.2 percent. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Oncology spending remains concentrated among the US and five largest European countries, which together account for 66 percent of the total market. (mangalorean.com)
  • The authors then subtracted the total amount of drug in the vials from the total amount of drug needed for each patient in the survey based on the patient's weight. (uclahealth.org)
  • For example, an 85 kg patient requires 850 mg of drug provided by three 300 mg/3.0 ml vials (900 mg total), with 50 mg of discarded drug per month. (uclahealth.org)
  • Although it reduced Hispanic/white disparities related to prescription drugs among seniors, it increased the frican merican/white disparity in total annual spending on prescription drugs. (hsr.org)
  • Total sleep time refers to the total sleep period minus the time spent awake during the sleep period. (medscape.com)
  • That steady growth got a big boost in 2020 when online shopping often became the only way to spend money. (onlinemadison.com)
  • No other industry has spent more money to sway public policy in that period. (thedailyheadache.com)
  • Drug War Prohabitionists Spending More Money. (michiganmedicalmarijuana.org)
  • The victims have come mainly from Toronto, lured to Alberta to cash in on the oilsands, but instead getting caught up in the quick money of the drug trade. (horseedmedia.net)
  • Community leader Hassan Ali says the youth turn to the lure of easy money through drug trafficking because everywhere else they turn there are barriers. (horseedmedia.net)
  • AUSTIN (Nexstar) - Texas budget writers have come to an agreement on how they'll spend taxpayer money over the next two years. (kxan.com)
  • Another House preference influence how public education money would be spent was removed from the budget proposal by the conference committee. (kxan.com)
  • In the beginning, the primary loss to the American public was fewer life-saving drugs, since more money had to be spent on development instead of discovering new drugs. (theadvocates.org)
  • Through these conversations, a gambler can learn to identify the triggers that lead him to gamble and develop strategies to avoid these behavior patterns as well as spending a lot of money on gambling. (reddit.com)
  • The next question is about money that you have spent out of pocket on medical care. (cdc.gov)
  • Such drugs have been responsible for 73 percent of spending growth over the past five years. (theconversation.com)
  • Growth in per-enrollee private insurance spending remains lower than prior years. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • Consequently, per-enrollee spending growth in 2014 (3.2%) was lower than in prior years, when it ranged from 4.5 percent to 6.9 percent. (commonwealthfund.org)
  • TB drug susceptibility testing (DST) was performed at the NYC Public Health Laboratory and the Wadsworth Center on initial M. tuberculosis isolates by using either BACTEC 460 or Mycobacterial Growth Indicator Tube 960 (Becton Dickinson, Sparks, MD, USA). (cdc.gov)
  • A major culprit is the continuing proliferation of high-cost drugs used to treat complex conditions like multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis C, and hemophilia. (cfo.com)
  • Best Practices in Post-Marketing Study Management," found that in the U.S., CER studies typically cost drug companies $14,924 per patient. (globenewswire.com)
  • These savings are likely to outweigh the cost of introducing new drugs in the short term," it says. (pharmatimes.com)
  • In general, rebates may reduce plan sponsor payments for drugs with a higher gross cost to an amount lower than the payment for a competing drug with a lower cost. (gao.gov)
  • A single prescription for one of the top five specialty drugs , for example, cost $6,621 in 2015, compared with $60 for traditional drugs like Nexium and Crestor. (theconversation.com)
  • It is estimated that every dollar spent on addiction treatment programs cuts the cost of drug-related crimes by about three dollars. (oceanhillsrecovery.com)
  • In fact, the importance of understanding the cost and what drives value within a drug benefits plan has never been greater. (benefitscanada.com)
  • Decisions surrounding prescription drugs need to be based on the unique patterns and cost drivers of the particular plan, as well as the values and objectives of the plan sponsor. (benefitscanada.com)
  • That's because only drugs for long-term use can recover the high cost of development that regulations have produced. (theadvocates.org)
  • In one case, the weighted average wholesale acquisition cost for a single drug increased by 477% over 5 years. (medscape.com)
  • A Food and Drug Administration analysis of national sales data found that the first generic version of a drug is typically priced only slightly lower than the brand product but that the availability of a second generic version is associated with an average price of about half that of the brand drug. (pewtrusts.org)
  • Also, GP practices serving the most deprived areas of the country prescribed an average of 46% more drugs per patient than those in the least deprived areas, it notes. (pharmatimes.com)
  • National use of oral oncologics (blue line) also increased significantly, albeit at a much lower average quarterly rate when compared with spending. (drugchannels.net)
  • Difference‐in‐difference‐in‐differences estimates suggest that for frican mericans Part D increased the disparity in annual spending on prescription drugs by $258 ( = .011), yet had no effect on other measures of prescription drug disparities. (hsr.org)
  • CMS officials told GAO that an evaluation of rebate information is unnecessary given its clinical formulary review, and that CMS is statutorily prohibited from interfering with drug manufacturer and plan sponsor negotiations. (gao.gov)
  • Kaiser Family Foundation analyst Larry Levitt said, "The drug companies have made no secret of the fact that they much prefer the Bush and Republican plans for providing a prescription drug benefit plan for seniors. (californiahealthline.org)
  • 2. Instead of using PBMs, the company created its own list of drugs to offer health plan members and negotiated deals with pharmacies. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • The plan is part of Democrats' sweeping social spending and tax package ( H.R. 5376 ), which House leaders plan to vote on before Thanksgiving. (bgov.com)
  • President Donald Trump sent pharma stocks sliding earlier this week with a single tweet confirming that he is working on a plan to tackle high US drug prices. (pharmaphorum.com)
  • Information, coaching and consultation strategies to support claimants in gaining the best value from their drug plan will become increasingly important as the population ages and the use of and need for drug plans rise. (benefitscanada.com)
  • It is unclear whether House conservatives who have been pushing for lower spending levels would accept the minibus plan or other ways of packaging spending measures. (fox2now.com)
  • Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), another Freedom Caucus member, said he is still looking for agreement on overall top line spending levels before agreeing to a spending plan. (fox2now.com)
  • I'll vote against everything until we get fundamental delivery on the basic promise that was made in January, which is spending cuts in exchange for allowing defense to rise," Bishop said when asked about McCarthy's plan to package the several bills together. (fox2now.com)
  • That is less than the $20 million that Governor Ron DeSantis pushed in his budget proposal but more than the $10 million that is included in the House spending plan. (thecapitolist.com)
  • They are used to treat a wide range of health conditions, including cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis, and are some of the most expensive drugs on the market, measured by both unit price and net contribution to spending. (pewtrusts.org)
  • According to the analysis, the worst offender was Biogen, where revenues from US premium pricing of drugs such as its multiple sclerosis blockbuster Tecfidera amounted to almost 250% of global R&D spend. (pharmaphorum.com)
  • The analysis focused on 15 drug firms that manufactured the 20 top-selling drugs globally for 2015. (pharmaphorum.com)
  • The number of competitors in a market can also affect drug prices. (pewtrusts.org)
  • The proponents' campaign, Ohio Taxpayers for Lower Drug Prices, has spent $10.4 million and has about $9,000 in the bank. (wcpo.com)
  • The two sides are engaged in a high-profile ad war over the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act, which seeks to bar state agencies from buying drugs at prices higher than what's paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which receives deep discounts. (wcpo.com)
  • That means new drugs, which can make headlines with high sticker prices, wouldn't be affected. (bgov.com)
  • The proposal is aimed at bringing the prices of those drugs down. (bgov.com)
  • In his first State of the Union address, President Donald J Trump pledged to work to reduce prescription drug prices. (medscape.com)
  • As reported by Medscape Medical News , the president said that drug prices are too high and said that one of his "greatest priorities" would be to find a way to bring them down, calling them "very, very unfair. (medscape.com)
  • In addition, we estimate the potential annual savings in primary care from drug patents that expire in 2012 and 2013 to be at least £86 million. (pharmatimes.com)
  • In 2011-12, NHS Scotland spent an estimated £10.5 million on prescribing support staff, who are using "good quality data" to support prescribers. (pharmatimes.com)
  • It also notes that, between January and March 2012, 1.25 million people in Scotland, or around 24% of the population, were being prescribed four or more different drugs. (pharmatimes.com)
  • The campaign for Issue 1, a crime victims' rights measure, reported spending $5.4 million for the period. (wcpo.com)
  • The pharmaceutical and health products industry has spent more than $800 million in federal lobbying and campaign donations at the federal and state levels in the past seven years, a Center for Public Integrity investigation has found. (thedailyheadache.com)
  • Its lobbying operation, on which it reports spending more than $675 million, is the biggest in the nation. (thedailyheadache.com)
  • The Alberta government says it will spend $1.9 million to try to cut the rising number of Somali youth dying in drug-trade violence. (horseedmedia.net)
  • The industry "fought back" with the Prescription Drug User Fee Act which lets companies pay about $1 million for a faster review. (theadvocates.org)
  • This "may reflect recent patent expirations of blockbuster brand-name drugs used to treat common ailments like high cholesterol and hypertension. (pharmatimes.com)
  • The earlier young people start using drugs, the greater their chances of continuing to use them and become addicted later in life.Taking drugs when you are young can contribute to the development of adult health problems, such as heart disease , high blood pressure , and sleep disorders . (medlineplus.gov)
  • Caterpillar also promoted the use of generic drugs - instead of costly heartburn and cholesterol drugs - and also hired its own pharmacists and physicians. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Ho suggests the influence of the pharmaceutical industry and the current culture and constraints of the medical system have also played important roles in the rise of prescription drugs. (sciencealert.com)
  • More than thirty percent of property offenders and fifty percent of violent offenders say they committed the crimes under the influence of drugs and alcohol. (oceanhillsrecovery.com)
  • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Backers of a fall ballot issue in Ohio aimed at lowering what the state pays for drugs have been outspent by the pharmaceutical industry-funded opposition by nearly 4-1. (wcpo.com)
  • October's Health Affairs focuses on "Specialty Pharmaceutical Spending & Policy," and it offers many must-read articles for anyone working with specialty drugs. (drugchannels.net)