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Before the January 20th inauguration, the senate voted on a budget that would allow the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. On January 20th as president, Trump’s first...
2017-01-04
Reading opinion pieces about what is driving the high costs of health care is like listening to siblings squabble about who is getting a dying parent’s money: each stakeholder claims to be getting...
2016-11-23
Pharmaceutical manufacturers received good news this month when president-elect Donald Trump won and “breathed new life into troubled industries, like Big Pharma stocks” according to a recent...
2016-11-03
I learned the word telenovela—which means soap opera in Spanish—in February when I aspired to passively learn Spanish while being entertained by bad acting. I immersed myself in a show ...
2016-09-15
Speaking of hurricanes, tis the season and here’s another more menacing to the pharmaceutical industry than MACRA, which I discussed...
2016-09-13
For more than a year, preparations for Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) has been like a recently named Cat 5 hurricane brewing off the edge of a fragile coastline. Some...
2016-08-16
Those who travel to southeast Asia will likely hear the phrase “Same Same But Different” which, among other uses, is commonly said by market vendors trying to sell a knock-off of a brand name item...
2015-09-03
Today, Novartis officially launched the highly anticipated first U.S. biosimilar, ZARXIO. ZARXIO was approved for the...
2015-08-31
The 2016 formulary exclusion lists have been announced by CVS Caremark and Express Scripts. The lists feature additional product removals in 2016, with Express Scripts increasing its list of...
