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Drug Pricing

IQVIA Drug Spending Report: OOP Costs Increasing, but Net Prices Rising Below Inflation

IQVIA Drug Spending Report: OOP Costs Increasing, but Net Prices Rising Below Inflation

April 25, 2022 – With drug pricing a hot-button issue as the midterm elections draw near, a recent report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science shines a spotlight on some of the nuances that often are missed when discussing the nuts and bolts of drug spending in the United States. One of the […]

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DTC Advertising

NEJM: Drug Price Information in DTC Ads Raises Public Health, Legal Concerns

NEJM: Drug Price Information in DTC Ads Raises Public Health, Legal Concerns

Nov. 19, 2018 – In a featured “Perspective” article in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) this week, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Ph.D., and Michelle M. Mello, J.D., Ph.D., state that although providing cost information about prescription drugs is valuable, mandating that companies use the wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) in direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads “raises substantial […]

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