Use of vouchers and coupons offered by pharmaceutical companies to defray patients’ out-of-pocket drug costs is concentrated among a small number of drugs.
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Coupons And Vouchers For Drugs Cover A Sliver of Prescriptions
Posted on 07 April 2021.
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Democrats Eye Medicare Negotiations to Lower Drug Prices
Posted on 24 March 2021.
Democrats, newly in control of Congress and the White House, are united behind an idea that Republican lawmakers and major drugmakers fiercely oppose: empowering the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate the prices of brand-name drugs covered by Medicare.
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94% Of Older Adults Given Drugs That Raise Falling Risk
Posted on 18 March 2021.
Nearly every older adult was prescribed a prescription drug that increased their risk of falling in 2017, according to new University at Buffalo research.
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State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Drug Costs
Posted on 16 February 2021.
Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels.
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Pandemic Triggers Big Swings In Prescription Drug Use
Posted on 17 June 2020.
As most of the nation hunkered down amid the coronavirus pandemic, visits to doctor offices and outpatient clinics plunged. That’s helping cause major swings in prescription drug use.
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House Passes Bill To Lower Drug Prices, Add Medicare Benefits
Posted on 06 January 2020.
During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump supported the idea of the federal government negotiating drug prices as a way to cut costs for consumers.
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