Medicare offers prescription drug coverage to everyone with Medicare. Its a good deal. Medicare subsidizes the outpatient drug benefit, generally paying about 75 percent of the programs costs. Unless you
Driving near Monterey, Calif., recently, I stopped at a roadside stand to buy some freshly-picked strawberries. May is high season for California strawberries, and the fields were exploding with beautiful,
Medicare spends billions of dollars each year on prescription drugs. That’s not surprising. What might be surprising, though, is how much the federal healthcare program spends per patient on some
She drew the life-saving medication into the syringe, just 10cc of colorless fluid for the everyday low price of, gulp, several hundred dollars. Was that a new chemotherapy, specially designed
New legislation increases the speed of the FDA approval process for generics by introducing fees for applying manufacturers. This is not a new approach manufacturers have been paying application
The nation could have saved an estimated $73 billion from 2010 to 2012 if clinicians had more frequently prescribed alternatives to brand-name drugs, a JAMA Internal Medicine study finds. The
Founded by brothers Geoffrey and Matthew Chaiken, Blink Health is changing lives in just a few easy steps. Once you’ve received a prescription from your doctor and sent it to
It’s not often that investors get an opportunity to invest in a whole new class of drugs, but they’ve got an opportunity to invest on the ground floor with biosimilars.
Aetna and Cigna inked deals last month with drug maker Novartis that offer the insurers rebates tied to how well a pricey new heart failure drug works to cut hospitalizations
Over the last several years, patent cliffs have led to steep revenue losses for traditional pharmaceuticals as well as created a gateway for smaller companies to come to market with
