Sentences with phrase «as higher drug prices»

Pharmaceuticals are way up, as higher drug prices loom for Medicaid and Medicare.

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Spending on new drugs for those diseases is expected to rise 7 % in 2018, and it's less due to price hikes as it is for the high prices associated with these specialty therapies.

Soliris's price can run as high as $ 700,000 a year, with the drug accounting for the bulk of Alexion's $ 3 billion in 2016 sales.

I hope so, particularly in light of pharmaceutical companies frequently pointing to the high costs of developing new drugs as being the primary reason prices are so high for existing drugs.

In fact, when pressed on the issue, Verheul speculated that perhaps costs would not increase since Canadians already pays higher prices for pharmaceutical drugs than consumers in European countries such as the UK, France or Germany.

The price of insulin — a lifesaving drug — has reached record highs as Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi raised prices more than 240 percent over the past decade to often over $ 300 a vial today, with price rises frequently in lockstep, according to information technology firm Connecture.

Why should we expect Mylan or any other pharmaceutical company to refrain from yanking up the price of lifesaving drugs as high as the market will bear?

As a result, the drug manufacturers end up setting two prices for their drugs — the higher list price and the lower, secret, «real» price that insurers pay.

That's because plans increasingly carry high deductibles, which require patients to pay for their drug costs themselves until they hit a certain limit, as well as to pay a percentage of the list price even after their deductible is met.

The stock prices of most drug related companies have been suppressed a bit recently as a result of politicians voicing their opinions about high drug prices.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC's David Maris told clients in a note, «We believe that there is a high risk that healthcare and drug pricing will be a key part of the midterm elections as well as the next presidential election, and we expect that the current administration will try to blunt any criticism that it hasn't done enough with plans of its own before then.»

Last year, as pressure mounted on the pharmaceutical industry after a series of high profile cases involving skyrocketing prices, drug companies spent roughly $ 800,000 lining campaign coffers in Albany.

Other recommended actions include more research, especially collaborative work, and more funding for that research; practicing integrity and high ethics; and controlling costs in such a way as to reduce the prices of drugs.

Similarly, prices of most other ADHD drugs would be higher — with an average increase of almost 4.6 % — with some, such as Dexedrine SR and its generic, increasing by as much as 8.69 % ($ 43.75 instead of $ 40.25) and 9.38 % ($ 38.42 instead of $ 35.14) respectively.

Doctors often cite the high price of a prescription drug as a reason they don't prescribe it, while patients similarly say that cost is a main reason they quit taking a drug.

However, because the gains which have been made in reducing health care spending are largely attributable to price dynamics (such as reduced or no growth in physician reimbursement rates, and high use of cheaper generic drugs), the authors warn that any future economic recovery might reverse the progress that has been made in recent years.

Although generic ARV prices have plummeted to as little as $ 100 per person for a year's treatment, the report also notes that when people develop drug - resistant viruses and need «second - line treatments,» it's much more expensive; in high - income countries, the cost can run up to $ 6000 per month.

As hearings began, Bryant's high - priced defense team wasted no time attacking the victim, building the case that her vaginal trauma was consistent with having had multiple sex partners in one day and dug into her anti-psychotic drug prescriptions and history of hospitalization.

A bit later, Trump detoured into an portion of the speech on the pharmaceutical industry, declaring the «injustice» of high U.S. drug prices as one of his «top priorities for the year.»