Sentences with phrase «expensive branded drugs»

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In general, generics are a wonderful thing — they're a lower - cost alternative to expensive, brand - name versions of drugs.

The higher costs have led to rationing of dwindling supplies of the less expensive generic drugs to avoid purchasing the more expensive name brand treatments.

Some manufacturers have recently boosted discounts as insurers and benefits managers have excluded more - expensive brands from lists of covered drugs.

Brand name drugs are protected by patents, which sustain profit margins that offset the expenditures required during the expensive R&D and drug approval process.

Plans often apply the rule to brand - name drugs as a way of controlling costs when less - expensive alternatives are available.

So the government will have to keep paying for the more expensive brand of the drug.

A team of researchers found that D.C. - based health care providers who got gifts — including cash, meals and ownership interests — from pharmaceutical companies prescribed more drugs per patient, wrote more expensive prescriptions and were more likely to recommend brand names.

That's because samples will always be the newest and most expensive brand - name drugs, and after the free samples run out, you are more likely to continue buying that brand.

I've tried expensive options and affordable drug store brands and have finally found the perfect product!

I have tried everything, from expensive skincare brands and light therapy, to prescription drugs, in an effort to deal with my condition.

Examples of Medicaid fraud include: billing for services not performed, providing unnecessary services, billing for more expensive services, billing for services separately that should legitimately be one billing, billing more than once for the same medical service, dispensing generic drugs but billing for brand name drugs.

It is an expensive drug under its brand name, but there is a generic equivalent to the human form of the drug (Eldepryl): selegiline hydrochloride.

So while a brand name medication might seem expensive to purchase through your veterinarian, you can rest comfortably knowing that your veterinarian selected that drug with a thorough knowledge of your horse's medical condition and how that specific drug works to treat it — and that the drug you receive is actually what it claims to be.

Ranbaxy's scientists also made it known to Thankur that it frequently substituted ingredients in medications for less expensive, low quality ingredients in order to manage production costs, as well as manipulated testing parameters by substituting brand - name drugs for their own drugs in order to accomplish better testing results.

Non-preferred and expensive brand - name drugs are usually in this tier.

More expensive generic drugs and preferred brand - name drugs occupy this tier.

A brand name drug will be more expensive than an otherwise - identical generic drug.

Not everyone needs maternity coverage and those brand name prescription drugs are often a lot more expensive than their generic alternative.