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Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: A Hope and a Payer If current trends continue, the United Kingdom will spend 12.7 percent of its GDP on healthcare by 2050. Maybe that means it's time to reform the National Health Service's notoriously complex drug payment scheme.
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 2008 John Carroll	Should Plans Pay Physicians To Switch Patients to Generics? The AMA calls it a kickback, but the industry sees it as just good practice to give doctors an incentive to get patients on equivalent generics
Managed Care September 2006	Payers, Consumers Benefit as Patents Expire The generic drug market seems ready to explode, according to reports from IMS Health and the Generic Pharmaceuticals Association.
Chemistry World March 17, 2014 Phillip Broadwith	UK to fast-track access to critical medicines Critically ill patients in the UK could receive new medicines before they are formally approved under a new scheme beginning in April.
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.
Knowledge@Wharton	Analyzing Brand-name and Generic Drug Costs in the U.S. and Eight Other Countries A new study comparing average prices for pharmaceuticals in nine countries -- the US, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico and the UK -- shows that average prices are highest in Japan, while prices in other countries are between 6% and 33% lower than prices in the US.
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.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2011 William Looney	Tracking the US Market: A Statistical Self-Portrait What are some of the essential characteristics of the US market? Statistics drawn from the 2011 Statistical Abstract of the US shed some light
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Catherine Arnst	America's Angry Patients U.S. patients pay more, wait longer to be seen, and suffer a higher rate of medical mistakes.
Managed Care December 2007	Insurers Lean Toward Generic Alternatives More insurers are focusing their attention on a second approach to generic drug management -- generic alternatives, which contain different active ingredients, but have comparable efficacy to brand-name drugs in the same class.
Managed Care August 2001 Steve Perlstein	Four-Tier Approach Injects Consumerism Into Drug Benefit In tying copayments closely to the actual cost of medications, Humana takes a step toward promoting awareness of resource use...
Managed Care March 2008 Martin Sipkoff	The Epilepsy Battle in the War Between Brands and Generics Brand-name manufacturers and many neurologists see danger in generic substitution, but the FDA insists that the practice is safe
Managed Care August 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Bad Tiered Formulary Designs Yield Poor Outcomes, High Cost Now that tiered formularies rule the land, what many suspected is being demonstrated: Compliance is suffering and so, too, are patients.
Chemistry World October 8, 2010 Sarah Houlton	U-turn on Alzheimer's drugs in the UK The UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence proposes that those with mild disease will be able to receive them from early next year, on the basis of growing clinical evidence of their effectiveness.
Managed Care March 2007	Use of Generics On the Rise Recent data indicate that generic medication accounts for nearly 60% of the drugs dispensed to people in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans and Medicare Advantage plans.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2005 Jill Wechsler	Washington Report: The e-Bandwagon The federal government is driving e-Rx adoption by establishing standards that Medicare drug plans will have to adopt by 2009, and HHS officials are pushing to make this happen much earlier.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2006 Brian Lawler	The Coming Generic Drug Boom Generic drugmakers are poised to profit from several key factors. Investors, take note.
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Chemistry World July 25, 2012	Pharma Industry May Suffer as India Looks to Generics India plans to provide free generic drugs to half its population.
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Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 William Looney	Truth Found in the Wrong Places More bad ideas on how to manage the healthcare burden are circulating beyond the stakeholders that initiated them.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2010	Taking a Less-Generic Route to Generics A leading pharmaceutical industry player speaks out on what is fueling success in the sector.
Managed Care May 2004	Biologics Among Fastest Growers Managed care plans and pharmacy benefit managers can benefit from the strong generic presence in the market, but also face challenges relating to biotech drugs.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2008 Brian Orelli	Like Coupons, Only Better Companies that provide medical products and services and are lowering their costs should do well in this environment.
Managed Care November 2004	Tiered Formularies Open the Potential for Lack of Access to Needed Drugs Tiered formularies that have additional incentives for preferred medications could create the potential for therapeutic compromises.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2011	30 Years of Pharma: Perspective in Numbers, Part 3 Top 10 generics companies.
Managed Care January 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Employers Want Plans & PBMs To Push Hard for Generics Health insurers' aggressive stand on members' use of generic drugs can attract new clients, but does it interfere with the physician-patient relationship?
Managed Care August 2005	Dispensing Machine Promotes Use of Generic Medications Generic drugs are being dispensed in doctors' offices by devices that function much like automatic teller machines that banks use, under a program sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota.
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2007 Humphrey Taylor	Opinion: Inappropriate Behavior Do doctors prescribe needless care? Will healthcare costs drop if patients decide whether treatment is necessary? It's time to start talking.
Chemistry World July 10, 2009 Sarah Houlton	Branded drugs' competition-free days numbered Authorities in the US and Europe are to look carefully at the tactics pharmaceutical firms use to delay competition from generic versions of their branded drugs.
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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.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Brian Orelli	Comparative Medicine Could Sink Your Stocks The government's plan will have a very unpredictable effect on companies.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2005 Brian Gorman	The Co-Pay Effect Higher co-payments look like the wave of the future, and investors should expect the trend to boost major generic players like Teva Pharmaceutical, Mylan Laboratories, and Novartis.
Chemistry World May 2006 Bea Perks	Editorial: Generics in the Dock The manufacturers of generic medicines in the U.K. must work harder to guard their good reputation. Or perhaps, manufacturers of generic medicines must work harder to counter their bad reputation.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Merck Goes on the Attack Predator becomes prey in this latest twist in the generics game. Given how much the markets hate uncertainty, that could mean that big generic drug companies might go on sale for patient long-term investors.
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Drew Armstrong	The Simplest Rx: Check on Your Patient Doctors and insurers cut costs by sharing information.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler	At the Helm of Industry As the lead FDA official overseeing the testing and approval of new drugs and biotech therapies for some 20 years, Dr. Janet Woodcock has built a robust and modern drug regulatory system.
The Motley Fool January 8, 2008 Brian Orelli	A Painful Reminder From the FDA The agency issues a reminder that osteoporosis drugs can cause severe pain.
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The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Brian Orelli	Questioning Pfizer's Integrity Pfizer's epilepsy drug Neurontin has had generic competition for a few years, but it's still plaguing the pharmaceutical giant.
BusinessWeek October 3, 2005 Howard Gleckman	Medicare: Decisions, Decisions With drug and HMO plans now in the mix, seniors face a raft of complex choices.
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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.
BusinessWeek April 23, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened.
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