The cost avoidance of heart failure–related hospitalizations and emergency department visits may outweigh the additional drug cost in Medicaid members adherent to sacubitril/valsartan.

While the ACA requires that plans provide prescription drug coverage, an analysis of insurance exchange plans for 46 states by health plan comparison firm HealthPocket found co-payments and co ...

A pharma giant rebrands its diabetes drug for weight loss. But health plans’ coverage of Wegovy, at more than $1,300 a month, is not a sure thing.

Governments and businesses throughout the US have tried to rein in pharmacy benefit managers, ... PBMs have a proven track record of reducing prescription drug cost for ... 28-page analysis, ...

For example, when a powerful new drug to lower high cholesterol came out in 2014 priced at $14,000 a year, ICER calculated that it was only worth about $3,000, putting pressure on the drug's maker ...

The inclusion of dynamic drug pricing in cost-effectiveness analysis is important for value assessments of new drugs. The drug price-related provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act make the case ...

Changes in out-of-pocket costs will be determined by the cost-sharing established by Medicare’s benefit design. Lower drug prices have the greatest impact if beneficiaries are required to pay a ...

2019 OCT 01-- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Education Daily Report-- Investigators publish new report on Education- Pharmaceutical Education. According to news originating from Vancouver ...

How is it that pharmaceutical companies can charge patients $100,000, $200,000, or even $500,000 a year for drugs—many of which are not even curative? Abiraterone, for instance, is a drug used ...

Cost-benefit analysis is a cornerstone of economics. But what if you're not computing the right numbers? Only people -- not metrics -- can say what's worth counting, argues psychologist Barry ...

The Center for Health Information and Analysis would be authorized to collect data on PBMs and issue regulations to better collect information from them and to help the state understand cost ...