By Anna Gorman January 13, 2017
A change in contractors for a state-run AIDS program has resulted in enrollment delays and left some patients unable to get necessary medications and timely
By Pauline Bartolone December 7, 2016
A key California lawmaker has reintroduced legislation intended to make drug price increases more transparent, vowing to take up arms again with the pharmaceutical industry
By Pauline Bartolone November 7, 2016
This year, Mary O’Connor and her father made voting a family affair.
O’Connor’s father is a Vietnam veteran, so she was especially interested in his views
By Phil Galewitz October 31, 2016
MADISON, WIS. — Something astonishing has happened in the past year to outpatient treatment at the Veterans Affairs hospital here.
Vets regularly get next-day and even
By Julie Rovner October 28, 2016
Until this week, when big increases in insurance premiums were unveiled for next year, the federal health law has not been a major issue in
Halloween is upon us and the Monster Mash begins
In pharmacy the Monsters are lurking everywhere, the dreaded PBM’s, Mail Order Pharmacies, Specialty Pharmacies, Part D Preferred Networks, DIR Fees, Unfair
By Sydney Lupkin August 26, 2016
The “most important factor” that drives prescription drug prices higher in the United States than anywhere else in the world is the existence of government-protected
By Ana B. Ibarra August 12, 2016
Controversial California legislation requiring drug companies to justify treatment costs and price hikes jumped one more hurdle Thursday, just a few weeks before the
By Pauline Bartolone August 10, 2016 KHN
Will forcing drugmakers to disclose big price hikes and new high-cost treatments help keep medications affordable for consumers?
That’s the premise behind legislation considered this