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Budget 2017: PBS shake-up to cut cost of drugs
9 May 2017 - Price reforms in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme will deliver $1.8 billion in savings over five years, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 May 2017
Strategic Agreement between the Innovative pharmaceutical industry and government delivers certainty for industry, savings to taxpayers and benefits to patients
9 May 2017 - Medicines Australia has signed a strategic agreement with the Australian Government that will support ongoing access ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Apr 2017
Drugs and manners of administration that meet the F2/multi-brand criteria (30 month clock for originator removal calculation) for the 2017 October Cycle
7 April 2017 - A list of drugs and manners of administration that meet the F2/multi-brand criteria (30 month clock for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Apr 2017
Payers’ experiences with confidential pharmaceutical price discounts: a survey of public and statutory health systems in North America, Europe, and Australasia
1 April 2017 - Institutional payers for pharmaceuticals worldwide appear to be increasingly negotiating confidential discounts off of the official list ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Mar 2017
The hidden cost keeping your health insurance premiums high
30 March 2017 - Private health insurance costs for everyone could drop dramatically if the Federal Government tackled murky practices relating ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2017
Federal Government announce 1100 medicines to have prices cut including rosuvastatin
25 March 2017 - Sick Australians will save $500 million over four years and up to $200 a year each ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Mar 2017
Battle over hips and the hip pocket as prostheses costs fight heats up
12 March 2017 - Australia's medical technology bodies are gearing up for battle as the cost of replacement hips, knees ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Mar 2017
Confirmed prices – 2017 April cycle of price disclosure
10 March 2017 - Confirmed 1 April 2017 prices resulting from the 2017 April cycle of price disclosure have been published. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Mar 2017
Industry group versus California newcomer in medical technology price row
9 March 2017 - The industry lobby group representing medical device manufacturers has rejected claims by a US manufacturer that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Mar 2017
Drug pricing report shows scope for more savings
6 March 2017 - The savings to the taxpayer in reducing the cost to Government of prescribed pharmaceuticals has been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Mar 2017
Response to the Grattan Institute Report on medicine prices
6 March 2017 - Medicines Australia does not accept the findings of this latest inaccurate, selective and misleading Grattan Report ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2017
Australians paying four times above international prices for drugs
5 March 2017 - Yet another report from the Grattan Institute on the prices of off-patent medicines in the PBS; ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2017
Bupa head tackles government for further reductions on costly prostheses
9 February 2017 - Bupa is calling on the Turnbull government to further reform medical device prices as the health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2017
Health insurers seek a halt to ‘$800m prosthetics wastage’
8 February 2017 - Health insurers have renewed calls for the federal government to address the high cost of prostheses, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Feb 2017
Senate inquiry on prostheses pricing urged to consider implications
31 January 2017 - AusBiotech has made a submission to the Senate’s Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the ‘Price ...