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Article: Claritin OK'd for counter sales
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- November 28, 2002
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MEDICINE:
Some insurers may raise co-payments for other allergy drugs such
as Clarinex, Allegra and Zyrtec.
ALLERGY
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ALLERGY: Change will reduce costs for uninsured users
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Federal regulators on Wednesday approved the nation's top-selling
allergy drug, Claritin, as an over-the-counter medicine, a decision
that will bring substantial savings for the uninsured and allow all
patients to obtain the drug without a trip to the doctor.
The decision may raise costs for many allergy patients with
insurance, however, because insurers will no longer cover most of the
cost of Claritin.
Insured patients may also now pay more for other allergy medicines
because some insurers say ...