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- Employers, health plans trying various remedies for soaring drug costs.(News)
- Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS Employers, health plans and pharmaceutical benefit managers are all implementing a variety of measures to help hold down escalating prescription drug expenses. Their efforts-including benefit design changes, co-payment Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS Employers, health plans...
- Research articles 2003-06-30
- Drug benefit plans allowing HSA users access to discounts on prescriptions.(health saving accounts)
- Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Insurers and prescription benefit managers are developing pharmacy benefit plans designed to help members of consumer-driven health care plans better manage their prescription drug costs. CDHP members are being allowed to Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Insurers...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Resolve to bar Canadian meds dwindles; Pending Senate bill would permit importation of prescription drugs.(News)
- Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK PITTSFIELD, Mass.-Another Massachusetts city may try to reduce its prescription drug-related benefits costs by allowing plan participants to buy prescriptions from Canada. The city of Pittsfield is "looking into the po Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK PITTSFIELD,...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Soaring drug costs spur benefit changes; 2004 Annual Employee Healthcare Conference.
- Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ NEW YORK-The rising cost of prescription drugs has forced employers to implement a variety of cost-control strategies. Benefit managers described their efforts to overhaul their prescription drug programs at the 2004 Annu Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ ...
- Research articles 2004-02-09
- A cross country prescription; Startup firm helps bring clients cheaper meds from Canada.(Health Care: No Borders USA Inc. is the startup)(Company Profile)
- Byline: RUTHANN ROBINSON A new Westlake company is building a business around helping Americans save money on prescription medications purchased via the Internet from Canada. No Borders USA Inc. went online Sept. 1 and since then has handled ab Byline:...
- Research articles 2002-10-14
- Prescription Drugs and the Changing Patterns of Treatment for Mental Disorders
- This white paper uses detailed data on prescription drug and other services from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS to examine recent trends in mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) treatment between 1996 and 2001. While use of ambulatory services remained constant, prescription drug use increased rapidly, with the result...
- White papers 2004-12-09
- Prescription Drugs: Recent Trends in Utilization, Expenditures, and Coverage
- Prescription drug costs, which rose by 15.7 percent in 2001, are the fastest rising component of medical expenditures and accounted for 16.7 percent of the total increase in health care spending that year. Americans spent more than $140 billion on prescription drugs in 2001-or about 10 percent of the nation's...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Prescription Drugs: Price Trends for Frequently Used Brand and Generic Drugs From 2000 Through 2004
- Prescription drug spending has been the fastest growing segment of national health expenditures. As the federal government assumes greater financial responsibility for prescription drug expenditures with the introduction of Medicare part D, federal policymakers are increasingly concerned about prescription drug prices. The report examines the change in retail prices and...
- White papers 2005-08-01
Additional Resources
- THE WHITE HOUSE: The facts about Medicare be beneficiaries and prescription drug coverage.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 July 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Disturbing truths and dangerous trends -- The facts about Medicare beneficiaries and prescription drug coverage C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:220799 National Economic Council Domestic Policy Council ...
- Research articles 1999-07-28
- Humana's Medicare Education RV Tour Returns to America's Highways; Eight recreational vehicles to travel cross-country to educate consumers about Medicare and prescription drug plan options in 2007
- LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For the second consecutive year, Humana Inc. (NYSE:HUM) is launching a nationwide mobile educational campaign designed to assist Medicare beneficiaries learn about new Medicare and prescription drug coverage options available to them in 2007. With the theme, "There's so much more to Medicare. Let's Talk," a fleet...
- Research articles 2006-08-28
- Seniors Coalition Praises Bush for Firm Commitment to Comprehensive Medicare Reform and Prescription Drug Coverage
- WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Seniors Coalition TSC, a leading advocacy group representing nearly four million seniors nationwide, today praised President Bush for reaffirming his strong commitment to comprehensive Medicare reform and prescription drug coverage for America's seniors in his State of the Union address. The group...
- Research articles 2002-01-30
- McKesson and Kerr Drug Sign Pharmacy Supply Contract
- SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 11, 1995--McKesson Corp. announced today that its McKesson Drug Co. unit and Kerr Drug Stores, Inc. have signed a prime-vendor contract for McKesson to supply Kerr with prescription drugs and selected over-the-counter health care products. Kerr, a major drugstore chain in North Carolina for...
- Research articles 1995-10-11
- Drug Makers Gave Lobbyists an Xmas Gift -- Millions More to Lobby Obama Administration
- A New Year will bring a new president, a new FDA chief, many new drug regulations, and, possibly, health insurance reform. Mindful of the ton of major drug brands that will go off-patent in 2009, drug companies have not rested in their lobbying efforts over generics and patent issues. They...
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- The New Medicare Prescription Drug Law
- The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act the Act, makes prescription drug coverage available to all senior citizens for the first time ever beginning in 2006.Tthe costs of such plans have recently risen by nearly 20 percent a year, causing some companies to limit drug benefits under retiree health...
- White papers 2004-05-07
- Food and Drug Administration: Decision Process to Deny Initial Application for Over-the-Counter Marketing of the Emergency Contraceptive Drug Plan B Was Unusual
- In April 2003, Women's Capital Corporation submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration FDA requesting the marketing status of its Emergency Contraceptive Pill ECP, Plan B, be switched from prescription to Over-The-Counter OTC. This paper examines how the decision was made to not approve the switch of Plan...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- A Prescription for Direct Drug Marketing
- On August 17, 1997, the US Food and Drug Administration issued temporary guidelines that, for the first time, permitted the drug makers to specify the uses of their prescription remedies in their radio and television advertisements. The ruling was a major advance for consumer involvement in health care and represented...
- White papers
- The Insider.(AARP planning to push for laws on selling prescription data to drug companies)(Business and Labor Coalition of New York may be more inclined towards businesses)(Rita Schwartz surfaces as potential candidate for commissioner of New York Depart
- Byline: Erik Engquist and Anne Michaud Seniors take on pharmacy chains Senior lobby AARP plans a major push in Albany for legislation to stop doctors' prescription data from being compiled and sold to drug companies. AARP's state legislative dir Byline: Erik...
- Research articles 2007-03-26
- Stop & Shop One-Ups Walmart With Free Generic Drug Offering
- Stop & Shop has gone one better than Walmart's $4 prescription drug plan. It's offering generic antibiotics free of charge through July 11. The company says: If your physician feels you need an antibiotic, just bring in your prescription and you can get up to a 14-day supply of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Use of synthetic drugs.(Did You Know That?)(White House)(Synthetic Drug Control Strategy)(Brief article)
- Use of synthetic drugs--such as methamphetamine, prescription medications, and Ecstasy--has become such a concern that the White House has released a specific national strategy to control synthetic drugs. It represents the first time that a national drug control strategy has focused on a single class of...
- Research articles 2006-08-01
- The Senate Bill: Medicare And Much Else
- Editor's Note: In the post below, Tim Jost looks at provisions of the Senate Democratic health reform bill dealing with Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP, and many other significant topics. In earlier posts, Jost took a first look at the Senate bill, provided a detailed look at several issues that arise under the bill's insurance reforms, and discussed...
- News items 2009-11-21
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