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Eli Lilly Posts Drug Price on Website But Not in TV Ads

Drugmaker Eli Lilly has started posting price information online for drugs advertised on TV. On Jan. 8, the company began running TV ads for a popular diabetes drug that don’t give the price but direct viewers to the website . …

California Governor Signs Order to Tackle Drug Prices in First Act

Hours into his new job, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Monday that could dramatically reshape the way prescription drugs are paid for and acquired in the most populous U.S. state. The order, along with another naming …

Drug Ads on TV Would Show Prices Under Trump Administration Proposal

The U.S. government, in an effort to increase pressure on drugmakers to lower costs for U.S. consumers, said on Monday it will propose requiring companies to include the price of their prescription medicines in television ads. Health and Human Services …

Why Patent ‘Shenanigans’ Share Blame for High Cost of Drugs

Bob Kelsey can’t afford a cancer drug that could save his life. The retired firefighter, 53, needs Revlimid to stay healthy. Celgene Corp. has raised the price 88 percent over the past seven years. The drug doesn’t have substantial competition …

Clinton Targets High Drug Prices, Consumer Marketing

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed on Tuesday a $250 monthly cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs and other measures to stop what she called “price gouging” by pharmaceutical companies. At a campaign stop in Iowa, Clinton rolled out …

Prescription Benefit Managers Excluding More High-Priced Drugs

Steve Miller is waging war on high- priced medicine, guiding decisions to ban drugs from the health plans of millions of Americans and sending companies reeling in a $270 billion market. He and his colleagues at Express Scripts Holding Co. …