prescription drugs

Study: Brand-Name Drugs’ High Copays Soak Medicare Part D Patients

Jul 7, 2016

By Sharing Painkillers, Friends And Family Members Can Fuel Opioid Epidemic: Study

Jun 15, 2016

Regulators Probing Whether Health Net Is Stiffing Drug Treatment Providers

Jun 7, 2016

Medicare’s Drug-Pricing Experiment Stirs Opposition

May 25, 2016

Opioid Epidemic Fueling Hospitalizations, Hospital Costs

Every day, headlines detail the casualties of the nation’s surge in heroin and prescription painkiller abuse: the funerals, the broken families and the patients cycling in and out of treatment. Now, a new study sheds light on another repercussion

May 4, 2016

Shortages Of Essential Emergency Care Drugs Increase, Study Finds

May 4, 2016

Coinsurance Trend Means Seniors Likely To Face Higher Out-Of-Pocket Drug Costs, Report Says

Mar 18, 2016

How Medicare Drug Plans Hope To Follow Private Sector Lead

Mar 18, 2016

Medicare To Test New Payment Approaches For Some Prescription Medications

Mar 9, 2016

Buehler Wants to Let Pharmacists Directly Prescribe Anti-Overdose Drug

Building on a bill from 2015 that gives pharmacists the ability to dispense birth control without a doctor’s prescription, HB 4124 allows them to bypass physicians when selling Naloxone, which is used to reverse the effects of an opiate or narcotic overdose, including from heroin and prescription drugs like Vicodin and Oxycontin.

Feb 4, 2016