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NHS saves record £300 million by switching to cheaper arthritis drug
26 November 2018 - The NHS is set to save a record £300 million after negotiating deals with five manufacturers ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Nov 2018
We're paying $834 million more for health insurance but getting less
26 November 2018 - Australians paid $834 million more for health insurance in 2017-18 compared to the year before, despite ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Nov 2018
Bitter pill over PBS savings shortfall
6 November 2018 - A key savings measure for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme came up $864 million short last year, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2018
Biosimilar adalimumab: a landmark for NHS medicines optimisation
23 October 2018 - The NHS’s bid to improve patient outcomes and save money by switching costly biological drugs for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2018
$6.8 billion ‘high claim’ health cost sparks private insurer outcry
23 October 2018 - Australia’s private health funds paid $6.82 billion in “high claims” in one year, prompting renewed concerns ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Sep 2018
Biosimilar medicines are the key to success
3 September 2018 - The lives of more than 10 million Americans — those with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2018
The $30 billion in health costs eating a hole in your pocket
15 August 2018 - Australians are spending nearly $30 billion on out of pocket health expenses a year, according to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2018
Too-keen medicos cost patients millions
8 August 2018 - Medical procedures likely to have little clinical benefit are still being performed in Australian hospitals, wasting ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2018
NHS saved £324 million by switching to biosimilars and generics
2 August 2018 - The UK’s national healthcare provider saved £324 million by switching its patients to “better value” biosimilar ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2018
Sydney Uni software helps hospitals cut medicine bill
25 July 2018 - A software platform developed at the University of Sydney could save Australia’s hospitals more than $100 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Jun 2018
High cost specialty drugs continue to dominate the new drug landscape
26 June 2018 - The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, through the National Prescription Drug Utilisation Information System research initiative, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jun 2018
Minister rings up healthy dinner bill for conference delegates
15 June 2018 - Tax payers forked out over A$100,000 for Health Minister Greg Hunt to host a dinner in Brisbane ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jun 2018
UK health spends lags behind EU peers
7 June 2018 - The amount the UK spends on health falls well behind that invested by European peers such ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Mar 2018
UnitedHealth Group hits $64 billion in value based care spending
5 March 2018 - UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurance company, says it’s paying nearly 60% of its reimbursements ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2018
Why the U.S. spends so much more than other nations on health care
2 January 2018 - Studies point to a simple reason, the prices, not to the amount of care. And lowering prices ...