Pharmaceutical – Page 5 – Healthy Skeptic

Mar 15 2011

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

For many patients, pharmacists are the easiest to access and the most trusted medical professional they know.

Feb 11 2011

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Starting this year, more affluent beneficiaries will have to pay higher premiums for their drug benefits.

Jan 31 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Generic drug makers are expecting copies of complex biological drugs to become a multibillion dollar market in the near future.

Jan 24 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government drug development center to help create medicines.

Jan 03 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

With drug prices rising, pharmaceutical companies are increasingly offering co-payment cards and coupons and other types of discounts – use has more than tripled since mid-2006

Dec 30 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

So Young and So Many Pills – More than 25% of Kids and Teens in the U.S. Take Prescriptions on a Regular Basis

Dec 24 2010

ABC News

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Many hospital patients are being turned away for potentially life-saving injection treatments in what may be the largest U.S. hospital drug shortage in over two decades.

Dec 11 2010

2010 Potpourri XLIII

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

The snow is raging here in Minneapolis, but nothing stops the delivery of our Potpourri, which includes discussion of paybacks on EHRs, the fate of dialysis patients, use of telecommunciations to aid drug adherence, cost savings from select pharmacy networks and hospital readmissions.

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Dec 09 2010

USNews

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Tweaks to the Medicare Part D drug coverage plan could result in a big cost saving for beneficiaries in 2011

Dec 07 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

State Medicaid pharmacy programs could save more than $30 billion over the next decade if they switched from fee-for-service programs to the more efficient approaches used by Medicare Part D plans

Dec 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Online drug-comparison tools can help consumers research a drug’s cost, including less-expensive alternatives, and any potential side effects

Dec 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If you were hoping that the new health-care reform law will address the issue of prescription-drug pricing, think again

Nov 24 2010

boston.com

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Massachusetts health officials published online yesterday the most comprehensive state database in the country listing payments drug companies and medical device makers have made to doctors, nurses, pharmacists, hospitals, and other health care providers.

Nov 23 2010

npr.org

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The Justice Department has collected a whopping $3 billion in settlements this year with help from whistleblowers and a powerful law known as the False Claims Act

Nov 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

It’s clear that big pharma will face a triple whammy of problems—patent expiry, regulation and health-spending restrictions—in the coming years, and large-scale mergers and acquisitions should come back onto the agenda

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