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Estimate My Medicare Prescription Drug Savings
Estimate your medicare prescription drug savings enter using this tool. Your annual drug costs in the box below and click the "submit" button to see approximately how much you'd pay when medicare's prescription drug benefits take effect.
Tags: Medicare, Prescription Drug, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Healthcare
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Statement by Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman and President, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and Former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, on the Death of Heath Ledger of an Accidental Overdose of
The following is a statement by Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman and President of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University: "The tragic death of Heath Ledger as a result of the abuse of controlled prescription drugs is sadly a story too familiar to many American...
Tags: Columbia University, health care, prescription drug
Research articles 2008-02-06
Rx reimportation falls out of favor; Canadian drugs no longer seen as panacea for cost problems.(Medicare Part D prescription drug )
Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ As recently as a year ago, the reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada and other countries was being hailed as an effective way to circumvent the high cost of medications in the United States. Not anymore. ...
Tags: FDA, Medicare, medication, prescription drug
Research articles 2006-09-04
Our Money and Our Lives: Medications and Health Policy
With annual spending for prescription drugs escalating dramatically and with the percentage of elderly people also increasing, this paper provides a useful guide to the complexities of prescription drug development, testing, approval, coverage, and surveillance which is well timed. It brings considerable skills of the clinician and epidemiological researcher to...
Tags: Project HOPE, Prescription Drug, Health Care, Healthcare
White papers 2005-08-01
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...
Tags: Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Prescription, Beneficiary, General Accounting Office, Health Care, Prescription Drug, Medicare, Brand, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Healthcare
White papers 2005-08-01
States' Control of Prescription Drug Spending: A Heterogeneous Approach
In an effort to balance Medicaid budgets, states use prescription drug cost containment tools in unique ways and in varying combinations. The paper reports on the variability in state-level strategies to control the cost of prescription drugs and describes broad state-to-state differences in per beneficiary spending on drugs. This heterogeneity...
Tags: Healthcare, State, Prescription Drug, Project HOPE, Variability
White papers 2005-08-01
Medicaid Cost Containment and Access to Prescription Drugs
States have been intensifying their efforts to control rising prescription drug costs in their Medicaid programs. This study examines the effects of five Medicaid cost containment policies on enrollees' perceptions of their ability to get prescription drugs. The results show that enrollees in states that have implemented all or almost...
Tags: Healthcare, Prescription Drug, Medicaid, Microsoft Access
White papers 2005-06-01
Using Evidence to Make Formulary Decisions for Rx Benefits
A key component in the strategy to improve the overall health of employees is the prescription drug benefit, since those drugs are important in the prevention and treatment of many diseases. With this in mind, some employers are promoting appropriate prescription drug use by basing their prescription drug benefit plan...
Tags: Healthcare, Prescription Drug, Aon Consulting
White papers 2005-05-16
Pharmaceuticals: State Departments That Purchase Prescription Drugs Can Further Refine Their Cost Savings Strategies
This report examines the purchasing strategies of the three primary departments that contract for prescription drugs- the Department of General Services General Services, the Department of Health Services Health Services, and the California Public Employees' Retirement System CalPERS. These departments procured more than $5 billion in prescription drugs during fiscal...
Tags: Strategy, Prescription Drug, Healthcare
White papers 2005-05-01
Retiree Health Benefits: Options for Employment-Based Prescription Drug Benefits Under the Medicare Modernization Act
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 MMA created a prescription drug benefit for beneficiaries, called Medicare part D, beginning in January 2006. The paper determines the trends in employment-based retiree health coverage prior to the MMA and which MMA prescription drug options plan sponsors said they...
Tags: Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Benefits, Healthcare, Health Care, Prescription Drug, Medicare, Health Benefit
White papers 2005-02-01
Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing Industry: The Document Services Opportunity
People are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives thanks to prescription drugs. These advances have not come without a price, however. Rising prescription drug costs have placed a growing burden on consumers, employers, and public programs. This has brought the industry under increased scrutiny. Furthermore, the long-term side effects...
Tags: Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Healthcare, Manufacturing, InfoTrends/CAP Ventures, Prescription Drug, Industry, Content Management
White papers 2005-01-01
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...
Tags: Healthcare, Prescription, Prescription Drug, Project HOPE, Treatment
White papers 2004-12-09
Comparative Analysis of Medicare Discount Card Prices and Retail Prescription Drug Prices: November 2003 and July 2004
The purpose of this study is to analyze changes in average retail prices and savings from average retail prices under the new Medicare prescription drug discount program for a 30-day supply of specific drug products commonly used by Medicare beneficiaries. The study compares retail cash prices obtained from Verispan with...
Tags: Healthcare, Analysis, Prescription Drug, Medicare
White papers 2004-10-05
States strike back on drug imports; Illinois, Vermont challenge FDA.(News)
Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ States' efforts to begin prescription drug reimportation plans were ratcheted up last week when Illinois announced plans to reimport drugs from several countries and Vermont began a legal challenge to the Food and Drug Admi Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ ...
Tags: FDA, pharmacy, prescription drug
Research articles 2004-08-23
Competition: An Antidote to the High Price of Prescription Drugs
Patent protection and factors unique to prescription drugs weaken the forces keeping prices near costs for other products. A growing public consensus that affordable drugs should be available to all is likely to increase the upward pressure on prices. To restore competition to all parts of the pharmaceutical industry, this...
Tags: Project HOPE, Pharmaceutical Company, Prescription Drug, Healthcare
White papers 2004-08-01
Does Cost Sharing Affect Compliance? The Case of Prescription Drugs
Private insurance for prescription drugs is characterized by two regimes: flat copayments and variable co-insurance. The paper develops a simple model to show that patient compliance is lower under coinsurance due to uncertainty in cost-sharing. Empirically, it derives comparable models for compliance behavior in the two regimes. Using claims data...
Tags: Coinsurance, Healthcare, Prescription Drug, Compliance, National Bureau Of Economic Research
White papers 2004-08-01
Prescription Drugs: Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Enforce the Prohibitions on Personal Importation
American consumers are increasingly drawn to the convenience, privacy, and cost advantages that might be accrued by purchasing prescription drugs over the Internet. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP and the Department of Health and Human Service's Food and Drug Administration FDA are responsible for...
Tags: Prohibition, Healthcare, General Accounting Office, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Prescription Drug, U.S.
White papers 2004-07-22
Medicare Prescription Drugs: Making the New Program Work
This article reports on the progress that has been made and questions that have been raised about the new Medicare prescription drug benefit that became law in late 2003. The focus is on issues raised during the National Medicare Prescription Drug Congress held in Washington, DC, in February 2004. The...
Tags: Prescription Drug, Medicare, Beneficiary, Healthcare
White papers 2004-06-01
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...
Tags: Human Resources, Benefits, Healthcare, Prescription Drug, Medicare, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting
White papers 2004-05-07
The Facts About Medicare-Approved Drug Discount Cards
Medicare is contracting with private companies to offer Medicare-approved drug discount cards. People can choose one of the discount cards offered by these private companies, to help them save on outpatient prescription drugs. Almost anyone with Medicare can get a discount card. The only people who aren't eligible are those...
Tags: Prescription Drug, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Healthcare, Medicare
White papers 2004-04-01
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