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Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2011 |
Revisiting Reform Courts, Congress review policies and programs shaping drug costs and access. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2008 Jill Wechsler |
Challenge and Challenges Expanded healthcare coverage also fits the goals of pharma manufacturers. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler |
What Price Innovation? Payers, drug plans seek clear assessment of drug value to rationalize high drug prices. |
Salon.com August 31, 2000 Alan Berlow |
Bitter pills Pharmaceutical companies are apoplectic over Gore's prescription drug pricing proposal |
Reason April 2001 Ronald Bailey |
Goddamn the Pusher Man Why does everybody seem to hate the pharmaceutical industry? |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2008 Jill Wechsler |
Part D Under Attack Congressional leaders ready campaign to curb Medicare drug plans. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Jill Wechsler |
New Ballgame in Washington Republican gains in Congress create uncertainty for health reform, drug regulation, and biomedical research |
Managed Care November 2005 Patrick Mullen |
This Biologics Industry Spokesman Knows That Health Plans Can Only be Won Over by the Financial Argument. Biotech's focus is expanding from products that treat relatively rare diseases to treatments for conditions that affect much larger populations, including various cancers, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma because of health plan costs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2013 Jill Wechsler |
Costs and Coverage Challenge Medicare Drug Plans Rate cuts and fraud concerns create problems for Part D plans and Part B providers. |
Chemistry World March 25, 2010 Rebecca Trager |
Big pharma scores in US healthcare reform President Obama has signed the biggest US healthcare reform since the 1960s, and although it is largely seen as a victory for the pharmaceutical industry, some analysts are characterising it as a 'double-edged sword'. |
Managed Care December 2000 Michael D. Dalzell |
Prescription Drug Reimportation: Panacea or Problem? Health plans concerned about the cost of pharmacy benefits might want to look at potential effects of prescription drug reimportation -- formulary issues and legal questions, to name two -- even if full implementation is a while off... |
Managed Care October 2001 Patrick Mullen |
Interview: Pharmacists in Need The executive vice president and CEO of the American Pharmaceutical Association says pharmacists are being inundated and need help... |
Managed Care May 2005 |
Implementing Medicare Part D Could Get Ugly This expert who hopes to help everybody adjust, nevertheless expects big headaches come Jan. 1, 2006. However, e-prescribing could make the drug plan work. |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler |
Pharma Challenges for 2014 Pricing and personalized medicine are key themes shaping drug development and marketing |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2013 |
FDA Pursues Delicate Balancing Act The Agency struggles to ensure access to needed medicines while minimizing potential risks, writes Jill Wechsler. |
Managed Care December 2000 Bob Carlson |
3 New England States Prescribe Innovative Ways To Cut Drug Prices It's too soon to tell whether Maine's prescription drug price control law will survive a legal challenge by drug makers. But private efforts and another innovative strategy -- a plan by Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire to purchase prescription drugs jointly -- are moving ahead... |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler |
Drug Coverage, Costs Under Scrutiny Benefits offered by insurance plans on health exchanges and through Medicare are raising concerns about patient access to needed therapies |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Fall Into the Doughnut Hole Medicare Part D provides valuable benefits for seniors. However, because the doughnut hole is a gap in coverage by prescription-drug plans, seniors must be prepared to deal with the costs associated with it. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler |
Rebates and Reform User-fee renewal legislation sets the stage for new policies affecting reimbursement, research, and regulatory oversight. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 10, 2014 |
Obama Policies Reshape Pharma Marketing Health reform initiatives promote transparency, challenge reimbursement, writes Jill Wechsler. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler |
An 'A' for Advancing Expectations As head of both the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mark McClellan has been at the center of public policy affecting the pharmaceutical industry over the last decade. |
Managed Care August 2001 Patrick Mullen |
The Expanding Role of Pharmacists Lobbying in Washington, monitoring state legislation and generally looking out for the interests of pharmacy programs run by health care plans and pharmacy benefit managers, Judith Cahill leads the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy at an exciting, critical time... |
BusinessWeek January 21, 2010 John Carey |
Making Personalized Medicine Pay Medco and other pharmacy benefit managers say future profits depend on matching drugs to patients based on their genes. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2012 |
Sunny Outlook for Biopharm 2020? Albert Wertheimer looks beyond today's dark clouds with a comparatively sunny forecast for the biopharm industry in 2020. Just watch out for the harsh light of complacency. |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 Jill Wechsler |
Transformation to Characterize 2013 FDA policies will reshape drug development, while pressure to cut healthcare spending may alter drug coverage and pricing. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2008 Patrick Clinton |
Pharm Exec Q&A: Tommy Thompson The former health secretary offers a reality check on healthcare reform and what to expect in '09. |
Managed Care March 2005 |
'This Country Cannot Continue With the System We Now Have' As a vice president of Pfizer Health Solutions, a major disease management company, John Sory knows how difficult it is to bring systematic care to the chronically ill. He discusses Pfizer's work with Florida's Medicaid program. |
Managed Care August 2001 |
Prescription Plan For Medicare Faces Lawsuit President Bush's plan to give prescription discounts to Medicare beneficiaries has created quite a storm... |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler |
Outrage Grows Over Drug Pricing Insurers, physicians attack high-cost therapies in anticipation of specialty drug surge. |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2012 Jill Wechsler |
Costs and Benefits of Health Reform Will expanded markets and accountable care organizations offset higher rebates, added fees, and closer scrutiny of marketing and prices? |
Managed Care May 2000 Bob Carlson |
Northeast States Pursue Price Controls To Stop Rise in Prescription Drug Costs "The high cost of prescription drugs is a crisis," says Maine Senate Majority Leader Chellie Pingree. "Working people tell us they make a difficult choice between filling their prescription or buying food or heating oil -- or, in many cases, going broke.... |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2007 Jill Wechsler |
Washington Report: A Full Plate It's going to be a busy year in Washington for the pharmaceutical industry. Drug safety, unapproved uses, e-data requirements, and a shift to personalized medicine are just a few of the hot issues on tap for 2007. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Jill Wechsler |
Washington Report: Out of Commission? Crawford Steps Down The clouded circumstances of the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration may complicate the process of securing a permanent leader. Meanwhile, battles continue over hot-button issues such as the morning-after pill and the regulation of follow-on biologics. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2012 Dean Baker |
Monopoly money It is remarkable that the system of patent support for prescription drug research has not become more of a policy issue. |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler |
Politics & PDUFA Pharma companies will assess health reform, negotiate user fees and keep an eye on federal prosecutors in the year ahead. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2012 Lauri Mitchell |
Who Pays for Specialty Medicines? Providers and patients fish for that delicate balance between access and abandonment. |
Reason September 2005 Kerry Howley |
Locking Up Life-Saving Drugs U.S. prescription laws make us sicker and poorer because the system that puts drugs over the counter is driven by profits and patents. |
CFO Kris Frieswick |
Clinical Trials A new kind of pricing pressure puts pharmaceutical CFOs in an unfamiliar role: evangelist... |
Salon.com September 8, 2000 Alan Berlow |
Prescription politics What's the difference between the Bush and Gore health plans? |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2012 Jill Wechsler |
New Year, New Issues Look for action in 2012 on drug access, shortages, innovation, and transparency. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the looming Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Obama health reform legislation. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Michael P. Cecil |
Will Medicare Negotiate With Drug Companies? One of the bedrock principles of our economic system is that those buying more of a product receive a discount. Wouldn't empowering Medicare to save taxpayers' money be widely embraced as a great idea? But how would pharma investors see it? |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2007 Patrick Clinton |
From the Editor: Meaningless A bill requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate Medicare drug prices directly with pharmaceutical manufacturers has a fatal flaw. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2006 Jill Wechsler |
Pharm Exec Q&A: A Soft Spot for Whistleblowers FDA's most aggressive critic in Washington is Iowa Senator Charles Grassley. In this exclusive interview, he explains where the agency goes wrong and what he would do to fix it. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2011 |
Winning Beyond the Molecule It can take both a clinical and non-clinical approach to win the differentiation competition. |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Brian Orelli |
An Untouched Market Waiting to Be Captured Unfilled prescriptions are a potential boon to drug companies. |
Searcher June 2012 Stephanie C. Ardito |
The Medical Digital: How Safe Are the Prescription Drugs we Take? Monitoring Adverse Events and Recalls For general information about prescription and clinical trial drugs, the following websites have been around for a while and have excellent reputations. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2012 Ron Cohen |
FDA's Necessary Dose of Reality There's no fast-acting salve, but there are several steps that can be taken to streamline many of the procedures at FDA. And it begins with leadership. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Major Health Care Reform Under President Bush Remains Elusive Three of the chief health-care challenges facing the United States are: finding a way to provide coverage for the millions of uninsured, reforming Medicare, and setting up a prescription-drug plan for the elderly. The White House is likely to make headway on only the third of these in the next two years. |
Reason November 2004 Ronald Bailey |
Mandatory Health Insurance Now! It will save private medicine in the U.S. -- and spur medical innovation. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler |
Reimbursement Limits Threaten Drug Access High cost-sharing, narrow formularies create problems for pharma companies and patients. |