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Managed Care December 2005	Pharmacy Cost Increases Below Medical for the First Time in Four Years According to a survey of 70 health care insurers, prescription costs are expected to increase at a lower rate than medical costs during the next 12 months.
Managed Care September 2007	Income Said To Influence Use of Generics An observational analysis of pharmacy claims collected from 2001 to 2003 finds that where a person lives and the socioeconomic implications of that location have a lot do with his use of generic drugs.
Managed Care March 2004	More State Medicaid Programs Use Preferred Drug Lists To Manage Costs Medicaid, enacted in 1965, is currently costing over $200 billion per year. With rapidly rising health care costs, including prescription drugs, state Medicaid budgets are feeling the strain. Here's what they're trying to do to manage.
Managed Care November 2001	Drug Discount Cards May Not Be Full Answer A fair number of consumers have turned to discount prescription cards to help pay for medications but the value of these cards is in doubt...
Managed Care October 2004 Arthur Lazarus	Formulary Restrictions Sometimes Harm Patients Much more research is needed to determine the full effect of drug benefit designs. Quality must be the foremost concern.
Managed Care March 2008	Drug Caps Lower Spending, but .... These policies tend to make consumers shoulder some of the cost of prescriptions and the cost could be a barrier to medication adherence.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2006 Selena Maranjian	Prescription for Prescription Bargains Did you know that your medications might be cheaper around the corner? Another way to offset your net expenses on medications is to make some money on drugs -- by investing in drug-related firms.
Managed Care July 2005	Cost being equal, consumers prefer older drugs Seven out of 10 consumers would prefer a drug that had been on the market for 10 years or more, compared to a newer drug, even if the copayments were equal. This could be a sign that consumers are more inclined to start using generic medications.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2011 Jason Knapp	Generic Drugs and Old People Could Make You Rich CVS hasn't generated market-beating returns yet -- but it will.
Managed Care June 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Limiting Access to SSRIs Does More Harm Than Good Despite the higher costs of SSRIs, compared to older antidepressants, limiting members' access can lead to undertreated depression.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2007 Mary Dalrymple	Drug Costs Giving You a Headache? If you want to cut your prescription drug costs, you can do more than just switch to generic brands. Shop around and ask questions. It's your health, and it's your money.
Managed Care February 2007	Managed Care Outlook Coverage for children leads policy debate.
Managed Care April 2001	Employers easing prescription limitations? Some older medications once viewed by employers as "lifestyle" drugs when making benefit decisions are slowly gaining recognition as important components of primary care...
Managed Care January 2005	Generic Prescription Fill Rates Vary Widely Across the Country Use of generic medications continues to increase, but the generic fill rate varies widely across the country, with possible explanations including variations in prescribing patterns, state regulations, etc.
Managed Care August 2002 Madeleine A. Estabrook	Regulators Take More Interest In Role of PBMs in Health Care In a highly regulated industry such as health care, it is just a matter of time before every component of the industry comes under scrutiny and review. Pharmacy benefit managers are taking center stage now.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2010 Dayana Yochim	6 Ways to Score Cheap(er) Drugs Stop overpaying for the pills you have to pop with these simple ways to trim your prescription-drug tab.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Brian Orelli	An Untouched Market Waiting to Be Captured Unfilled prescriptions are a potential boon to drug companies.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2010 Andrew Bond	Wal-Mart Enters the Health-Care Fray Wal-Mart and Humana's partnership will have competitors scrambling.
Managed Care November 2005	Recently Introduced Generics Helped Pbm Control Its Costs The top five generic drugs released over the past three years reduced pharmacy spending by 4.8 percent largely due to the timing of the release of generic products to the market.
Managed Care March 2006	Study: No Need To Burden Consumers To Cut Drug Bill A study by Express Scripts shows that changing the prescription benefit copayments can reduce costs by encouraging more use of generic drugs. All without shifting costs to consumers.
PC Magazine November 16, 2005 Molly K. McLaughlin	Track Your Meds Anyone who regularly takes several prescription and over-the-counter medications could find the RxWise tool to be a lifesaver.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2005 Brian Gorman	Saying No to Drugs Britain's policy of restricting drug access based on cost-benefit analyses should be on the radar screen of pharmaceutical investors.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2005 Patrick Clinton	Playing Doctor Why Congress plans to ban erectile dysfunction drugs from Medicare and Medicaid, and why they shouldn't do it.
Managed Care June 2005	Headlines On Deadline ... Many jobs available to young adults pay little... Prescription medications are getting more difficult to afford...
ifeminists November 17, 2004 Byron Fraser	Review: Your Drug May Be Your Problem Excerpts from the book Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications by Peter Breggin and David Cohen delineating the adverse effects of these medications and how to stop taking them.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2006 Michael P. Cecil	A Drug-Price Avalanche? Wal-Mart shapes the way America buys many products, and its recently announced $4 program for generic prescription drugs may be the harbinger of a major change in prescription-drug sales.
Managed Care June 2006	More Young Adults Prescribed ADHD Drugs The number of adults ages 20 to 44 prescribed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medications increased about 140% from 2000 to 2005. This was even faster growth than the 82% reported for children.
The Motley Fool December 6, 2007 Selena Maranjian	Your Drugs Are in the Mail Order medications online and save. According to a study by the Lewin Group, mail-order pharmacies, such as Medco and Express Scripts, can save you as much as 10% overall.
ifeminists January 26, 2005 Tony Zizza	NAMI Is Dead Wrong On Mental Health Screening It's time to relentlessly put President Bush's mental health screening monster and groups like NAMI in their place. Mandatory mental health screening is child abuse.
Managed Care May 2006 John Carroll	Effective Ways To Increase Usage of Generics Generics is one of the few areas where insurance plans can economize effectively. BlueCross & BlueShield of North Carolina is one of many insurers that are changing members' and prescribers' behavior.
Fast Company October 19, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Generic Pharmaceutical Conference Here are five in-demand meds and their generic counterparts.
Managed Care August 2002	24 States Hope Pharmacy Plus Helps Medicaid Twenty-four states may gamble that providing a prescription drug program to low-income elderly who do not qualify for Medicaid could save them money in the long run.
Managed Care April 2006	Fewer New Therapies Expected for GI Disorders by 2010 Will prescription drugs for gastrointestinal disorders go the way antihistamine medications did when the FDA approved a generic version of Claritin in 2002?
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov	Mental Health And Women A new report shows that one in four American women use prescription medication to combat mental disorders, and the numbers are on the rise.
Managed Care November 2002 John Carroll	Drug Companies Crying Foul Over Medicaid's Formulary Push With states' preferred drug lists spreading like a prairie wildfire, the manufacturers have mounted a furious legislative counterattack, funding grass roots campaigns aimed at fanning the opposition in state legislatures even as they wage a legal war in state and federal courts.
Managed Care February 2007 Martin Sipkoff	As Drug Payment Model Changes, Confusion Grows Among Insurers Purchasers are hopeful that life after "average wholesale price" will be simpler, fairer, and, with luck, easier to grasp.
Managed Care April 2005	Medicare Modernization Act to Increase Public Sector Spending Nearly 50 Percent While the burden on the public sector to supply health care benefits to Medicare and Medicaid enrollees will increase, on the private side, a reevaluation of current forms of health insurance coverage may take place as growth in premiums continues to outpace growth in compensation.
Managed Care August 2007	Managed Care Outlook Specialty drugs increasingly used to treat chronic conditions.
CIO September 26, 2013 Stephanie Overby	Big Data Project Cuts Prescription Costs Express Scripts analytics portal helps doctors prescribe more cost-effective medicines.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	Wal-Mart Goes Generic The supposed most terrible retailer of all is doing a very good thing with generic drug sales. The program will, of course, benefit Wal-Mart by creating additional traffic to its stores. This move could change the game for a number of retailers over the next few years.
Managed Care October 2003	Mental Health Coverage Woes Not All in Mind The authors of a new study find that although coverage for mental healt is now widespread among those with insurance, parity laws have not really put access to mental health services on a par with access to other services, thanks to continued limits on outpatient and inpatient visits.
Managed Care April 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Blues Plan's Bold Move Brings Generics Savings Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina is waiving its copayments for generic drugs in a unique six-month pilot program.
Managed Care March 2001	Does Cost-Sharing For Drugs Lead To Adverse Events? A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that HMOs' increased use of cost-sharing to soften prescription drug expenses may have actually increase overall medical costs over the long term.
Managed Care January 2004	Increasing drug copayments deter compliance Raising copayments in tiered prescription drug plans increases the likelihood that patients will stop taking prescribed medications, according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The Motley Fool May 19, 2007 Elizabeth Brokamp	Save Big on Prescriptions Tips for cutting medication costs.
Managed Care July 2005	Two Major Studies Focus On Mental Health Two major studies on mental health say that while strides have been made in awareness of the problem and the willingness of patients to seek help, much more needs to be done.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2009 Dayana Yochim	Fiscal Fitness '09: 6 Ways to Score Cheap(er) Drugs Save more than $200 on prescriptions.
ifeminists September 15, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Mandatory Mental Health Screening Threatens Privacy, Parental Rights The screenings may be used to force parents to put their children on psychiatric medication. Some parents who have refused to do so under current policies have been threatened or charged with "child abuse" for no other reason than their refusal.
InternetNews October 13, 2004 Roy Mark	Report: The Internet and Drugs Don't Mix It seems an increasing number of Americans are researching drugs online, but safety fears chill buying.
Managed Care March 2001	Maine Gets HCFA Waiver for Drug Discount Program The Health Care Financing Administration has given Maine officials clearance to offer a discount prescription program to 200,000 people without a pharmacy benefit...