Jeanne Pinder
Summary: Rising generic drug prices have been a topic of discussion here for some time. But now, they’ve set off a congressional investigation, according to a congressional press release. CLICK HERE FOR PRICES
Jeanne Pinder
Great piece from The Bulletin in Bend, Ore., about how a small clinic analyzed the effects of drug company representatives’ visits to the clinic bearing lunches and samples, and how the clinic decided to throw the reps out: “An analysis of the sample closet revealed very few first-line drugs, the type of medications that doctors […]
Jeanne Pinder
Did you ever notice that prescription prices seem to be crazy? Pricing policies from pharmacies and manufacturers are all over the map, David Lazarus writes in The Los Angeles Times, quoting a former drug purchasing manager for Kaiser Permanente, the big California-based health-care provider. ” ‘A lot of the prices for generics cant be […]
Lisa Riordan Seville
Do you have prescription drug coverage? Here’s how both the insured and uninsured might benefit from considering generic pharmacy plans when they fill their prescriptions.
Jeanne Pinder
The marketplace for birth-control pills is pretty interesting, and it seems to change by the day. A woman we know who takes Ortho Tricyclen Lo got this letter not long ago from her insurance company, encouraging her to stop taking the brand-name pill (for which she has a $50-a-month copay) and to instead start taking […]
