$9.99 for 90 days with enrollment with the Health Savings Pass CVS becomes the latest retail drug chain to jump on the bandwagon, pretty close in comparison, except you need to join the Health Savings Plan. The plan is primarily created for cash patients but anyone can benefit so if you have a...
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on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, PHR, Google Health, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CVS, Discounts, Minute Clinic
I wonder if all the name brand companies will one day have nothing but generics? (grin). There’s always this interesting topic too, biosimilars. “Because biosimilars aren't exact duplicates of the original drugs, they don't violate the original drug's patent , enabling legal distribution...
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on 10-16-2008
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As a physician, if you haven’t been marketed yet, you might expect some marketing efforts forthcoming soon. In Florida the insurance companies are offering free e-prescribing and I might guess by going through a clearinghouse that this will go directly into the records of one’s medications with...
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on 09-22-2008
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Medical Quack on Reuters. Now this is a sad state of affairs to be the prudent consumer, and yet you are potentially taking money out of your doctor's pocket by doing so when it comes to pay for performance for them, so what's up with this when purchasing $4.00 Generic Drugs. BD...
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on 09-18-2008
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The story keeps getting stranger by the day. A little recent history can be found here. The US is only 2-3% of their entire market so most pharmacies have already found other supplies, such as Walgreens did a few months ago when things started brewing. Will this soon be a Japanese...
More can be read here as well. The issue goes back to a raid in 2006 of a US warehouse in New Jersey. If the pills were a problem, why were they allowed to continue to ship with allegations that factory test records were falsified. Well I guess this now gives us the answer while the...
This brings up an interesting question, what do you go for relief or bankruptcy? Although now it is not real wide spread, but as the Biomed business continues to grow with new break throughs, how will this process continue? Is this more justification for biosimilars, the Biomed side of generic...
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on 08-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, health insurance, Generic Drugs, Biomed, Biosimilars, 4 tier