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Article: Birth-control prices inch down: State agency out of 4 types of pills
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- August 13, 2006
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West Virginia Family Planning's top supplier of contraceptive
pills and patches for low-income residents lowered its prices on both
products in recent weeks, but not enough to prevent a drought of
birth control that has already struck the state.
The price that drug company Ortho-McNeil charges public health
services across the nation - including Family Planning - for the
birth-control patch Ortho Evra dropped from $22.46 to $15, said
Family Planning Director Denise Smith.
That price is about $3 more than the company charged family
planning centers before July 1, when the company raised birth-
control prices dramatically. In some cases, birth-control pills that
cost a ...