Mental Health Drug Prescriptions on the Rise April 22, 2021 The number of Americans taking mental health prescription medication is up 6.4% in the last year, which means that 65...
Drugmakers Plan to Raise Prices in New Year: Reuters, 3 Axis Advisors January 4, 2021 By Michael Erman and Carl O'Donnell Drugmakers including Pfizer Inc., Sanofi SA, and GlaxoSmithKline Plc plan to raise U.S. prices on more than 300 drugs in...
Market Value of Insurers, Drugstores Drops on Amazon Plans to Sell Prescription Drugs November 17, 2020 By Cristin Flanagan The leading drugstores, drug distributors and health insurers lost about $22 billion in market value Tuesday after Amazon.com Inc. revealed...
Trump Signs Executive Orders to Lower Prescription Drug Prices July 27, 2020 By Jeff Mason, Alexandra Alper and Carl O'Donnell U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed four executive orders aimed at lowering the prices Americans pay for prescription drugs,...
How Pharmacies Are Resisting Amazon’s Attempt to Corner Their Business September 19, 2019 By Robert Langreth Getting into the pharmacy business was easy for Amazon.com: It paid $753 million to buy the mail-order startup PillPack. The...
Arkansas Governor Says Special Session on Pharmacy Rates Possible February 21, 2018 Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he’ll call a special legislative session to address reimbursement rates for pharmacies and to amend...
Database in Nevada Aims to Accurately Depict Opioid Crisis September 29, 2017 Officials say a new state database will help paint a better picture of the opioid crisis in Nevada, as existing...
Prescription Drug Use Up, Out-of-Pocket Spending Down Under Affordable Care Act: RAND September 1, 2016 People who gained health coverage following the implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansion sharply increased their use...
West Virginia Supreme Court Rules Addicts Can Sue Pharmacies, Doctors May 18, 2015 By John Raby Pharmacies and doctors who negligently prescribed pain medication can be sued for enabling people’s addictions, the West Virginia Supreme Court...
Prescription Benefit Managers Excluding More High-Priced Drugs November 26, 2014 By Robert Langreth Steve Miller is waging war on high- priced medicine, guiding decisions to ban drugs from the health plans of millions...