Hospital drug spending will increase by 3.59 percent through next year, indicating a “continuation of the sustained modest growth” observed over the last several years, according to the...
340B hospitals are getting reimbursed three times the amount they initially paid for brand medications under the drug pricing program, according to a new analysis conducted by Milliman and commissioned...
National healthcare spending in 2018 grew at a rate of 4.6 percent to $3.6 trillion, which translated to about $11,172 per person, the Office of the Actuary at CMS recently reported.
The growth rate...
Nearly one in eight individuals nationwide with common heart diseases choose not to take their prescriptions, delayed filling prescriptions, or took a lower dose than prescribed because of patient...
Gifts from pharmaceutical companies that sold opioid medications led to more opioid prescriptions in the year following gift receipt, a new study from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of...
Physician practices and hospital outpatient clinics treat a similar number of commercially insured patients needing physician-administered drugs, but hospitals receive a larger share of the gross...
CMS could have saved an additional $2.9 million in 2017 if the agency lowered Medicare reimbursement for more Part B drugs through price substitution, the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)...
Including inpatient and outpatient settings, hospital prescription drug spending is likely to increase by about 4.57 percent in 2020, according to Vizient’s July 2019 Drug Price Forecast.
The...
Hospital and health system pharmacies are dedicating significant time and money to finding ways to work around prescription drug shortages and acquire access to medications now and in the future,...
A new partnership between Civica Rx and Xellia Pharmaceuticals in Denmark is aiming to alleviate antibiotic drug shortages, according to a recent announcement from the non-profit drug company.
The...
