Category:
Drug Prices
Region:
USA
State:
Pennsylvania
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GENERIC ANTI-CHOLESTEROL DRUGS SAVE $126 MILLION FOR PLAN SPONSORS, PATIENTS
Date: 12-Feb-2007
ST. LOUIS, February 12, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Generic anti-cholesterol drugs helped pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts save $126 million for its plan sponsors and patients in 2006.
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Category:
Business
Region:
USA
State:
Pennsylvania
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MEDICAL, BUSINESS, MUNICIPAL, TRAVEL, LAW
Date: 18-Dec-2006
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new proposal from the Bush administration, that slashes billions of dollars from the Medicaid program, will threaten access to life-saving medications for millions of the most vulnerable Americans and cost the government more in the long run, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed cutting the Medicaid program by $8.4 billion over the next five years, with more than 90 percent of the cuts reportedly coming from reimbursement to pharmacies. Medicaid is the joint federal-state program that provides health care to more than 50 million poor and disabled persons, more than 50 percent of whom are children.
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