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Most coronavirus tests cost about $100. Why did one cost $2,315?
16 June 2020 - U.S. health care prices are unregulated, opaque and unpredictable. When Congress required insurers to cover COVID-19 testing, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2020
Extended-release drugs could be costing U.S. health care system billions
1 March 2020 - If doctors prescribed short-acting medications that must be taken twice a day instead of once-a-day extended-release ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2019
Innovation and access at the mercy of payment policy: the future of chimeric antigen receptor therapies
1 November 2019 - In 2017, the US FDA approved the first chimeric antigen receptor therapies (CAR-Ts), tisagenlecleucel and axicabtagene ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Sep 2019
The U.S. health care system found a way to make peanuts cost $4,200
13 September 2019 - A new, billion-dollar pharmaceutical to treat peanut allergies is up for approval. It’s simply peanut flour. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jan 2019
Why pharmaceutical companies are on a shopping binge
14 January 2019 - With the cost of R&D so high, it may make sense to spend money on a competitor. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Nov 2018
Novartis says SMA gene therapy is cost-effective at $4-5 million per patient
5 November 2018 - Novartis, which is shifting into rare diseases, said on Monday it believes its new gene therapy ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jun 2018
The ‘right to try’ could cost dying patients a fortune
21 June 2018 - Small biotech considers giving access under new U.S. law. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Apr 2018
Why Trump’s tariffs could raise the cost of a hip replacement
6 April 2018 - Pacemakers and artificial joints. Defibrillators. Dental fillings. Birth-control pills and vaccines. All are made in China, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Oct 2017
Breakthrough cancer treatments raise difficult questions
1 October 2017 - The approval of a first-of-its kind cancer therapy creates new challenges related to safety, access, and costs. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2017
Cheaper drug trials would lower prices: FDA chief
15 September 2017 - Decreasing the time and cost it takes to develop a drug would lower drug prices, FDA ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jun 2017
More new cancer drugs mean higher costs but also longer lives
1 June 2017 - Spending on cancer treatments has spiked past the $100 billion mark globally over the past five ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Nov 2016
Costs keep women from taking drugs to prevent cancer’s return
1 November 2016 - Poverty and higher out-of-pocket drug costs may be the main reason that some women don’t stick ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Nov 2016
How health care hurts your paycheck
2 November 2016 - If there is a coherent theme to this year’s election, it is the growing economic frustration ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Nov 2016
Is high-deductible health insurance worth the risk?
31 October 2016 - As companies push workers to pay more for their medical care, millions of employees are facing ...