Insurer to Give Bonuses For Curbing Drug Costs.

Family Practice News;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......numerous steps to rein in prescription drug costs, including tiered formularies, an increased...seek reimbursement later. The BC/BS sees drug costs as the driver of escalating health care...inflation back to double-digit increases. Drug costs for the Blues nationally doubled from...

Drug costs expected to rise, but at a slower pace.(Business)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  November 24, 2005 ;     235 words ......Postelnicu Medill News Service Prescription drug costs are projected to grow by 11.8 percent...expected increase for prescription drug costs is more than a percentage point lower than last year, when drug costs went up 13.1 percent. It's the first...

Clinical services cut drug costs, study shows

Drug Topics;  November 1, 1999 ;     131 words ......pharmacy services had significantly lower drug costs, according to a study from the Texas...more clinical R.Ph.s translated to lower drug costs, but having more pharmacy administrators...and techs was associated with higher drug costs. The data were culled from the 934 hospitals...

PBMs still effective in reducing employers' drug costs.(prescription...

Business Insurance;  April 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ......looking to cast blame for their rising drug costs, employers themselves perhaps have not...controls growing. In the past few years, drug costs have risen 15% to 20% annually, studies...PricewaterhouseCoopers. With all the forces pushing up drug costs, PBMs ``are as effective as they ...

Free Report on Cutting Drug Costs

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  December 6, 2002 ;     90 words ......top 17 ways to cut your prescription drug costs. The six-page report gives consumers...information on how to cut their prescription drug costs by up to 93 percent. Consumers can receive...addressed stamped envelope to: "Cut Your Drug Costs Report", P.O. Box 918, Dallas, PA 18612-08...

Drug costs more than double from 1992 to 1999, jump 26.2% between 1998 and...

Health Care Strategic Management;  November 1, 2000 ;     393 words ...Retail drug costs in the United States more than doubled...management company based in Scottsdale, Ariz. Drug costs climbed to $119 billion in 1999, from...said that per member per year (PMPY) drug costs for health plans increased to $307.58...

Lawmakers' goal: lower drug costs

Charleston Gazette;  February 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Mezzatesta, state government's failure to cut drug costs would leave a dizzying array of drug...Legislature that would more tightly regulate drug costs and industry practices. The others call...capita income 49th in the nation, and drug costs pressing hard on state agency budgets...

Thompson backs push to help seniors meet drug costs

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 27, 2000 ;     656 words ...Thompson backs push to help seniors meet drug costs, Participants would save $792 each...help seniors save $792 a year in drug costs. "Seniors are also facing a crisis with skyrocketing prescription drug costs," Thompson told a joint legislative...

Higher drug costs to hurt in Michigan.

Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  April 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......13--News that wholesale prescription drug costs grew at more than twice the rate of inflation...workers. Nationwide, wholesale prescription drug costs rose an average of 7.1 percent in 2004...has been somewhat shielded from higher drug costs because a high percentage of Michigan...

Fed: GPs propose new scheme to cut drug costs

AAP General News (Australia);  August 5, 2006 ;     268 words ......08-05-2006 Fed: GPs propose new scheme to cut drug costs SYDNEY, Aug 5 AAP - The main body representing...revamp of prescribing practices to cut drug costs by $170 million a year. The Australian...Jenny Thomson said the way to stem rising drug costs was to give prescribing control ...

Drug industry targeted; Bush, Gore take aim: Prescription-drug costs...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 3, 2000 ;     675 words ......For at least a decade, prescription-drug costs have risen like temperatures on a fever...tapping the anxiety of voters squeezed by drug costs - up by some 15 percent a year for the...Much has changed since then: * Rising drug costs now are due much more to the development...

Prescription Drug Costs are High: How will candidates address this...

Jewish Exponent;  September 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Jewish Exponent 09-28-2000 Prescription Drug Costs are High: How will candidates address...program. The benefit would cover all drug costs and premiums for individual seniors with...would pay a maximum of $4,000 per year on drug costs. The government program's premium for...

DRUG COSTS PUT STRAIN ON HEALTH INSURERS MAY FORCE CHANGE FOR MANAGED CARE

The Boston Globe;  March 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Drug costs could outstrip hospital expenses as the...public and private, are finding that drug costs are rising at alarming rates -- up as...Massachusetts Medicaid program, where drug costs per patient shot up more than 46 percent...

1.5 Million Seniors Grappling with Catastrophic Drug Costs; New Research...

PR Newswire;  October 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ......beneficiaries who have coverage for catastrophic drug costs in 2006 would dramatically increase under...more than $4,000 in annual out-of-pocket drug costs -- and who would not have any coverage...beneficiaries have coverage for catastrophic drug costs. The analysis further shows ...

Foser urges Wise action: Governor must act now to curb drug costs, senator...

Charleston Gazette;  November 5, 2004 ;     410 words ......urgent problem" of high prescription drug costs. Foster, who made efforts to curb soaring...forefront of efforts to control prescription drug costs. "The forces that oppose this legislation...states to take the lead on controlling drug costs. "[President Bush] winning the election...