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PBS medication to cost no more than $25 under Labor re-election pitch
19 March 2025 - Australians are set to save a combined $200 million a year under the plan, which will cost ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jan 2025
Largest pharmacy benefit managers hiked up drug prices, FTC says
14 January 2025 - Investigation found overcharging for drugs used to treat cancer, HIV, multiple sclerosis and other diseases. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2024
Drug middlemen push patients to pricier medicines, House probe finds
23 July 2024 - Findings from the House Oversight investigation add to criticism that pharmacy-benefit managers are driving up drug spending. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2024
Onco360 selected as a limited distribution specialty pharmacy partner for Rytelo (imetelstat)
12 July 2024 - Onco360 has been selected as a pharmacy partner by Geron Corporation for Rytelo (imetelstat) as a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jul 2024
Pharmacy middlemen appear to be inflating drug prices, FTC says
9 July 2024 - The Federal Trade Commission released a critical report detailing how pharmacy benefit managers—like CVS Health’s Caremark, Cigna’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jul 2024
An online pharmacy pledged to make prescriptions easier. It sent the wrong drugs instead.
4 July 2024 - Elevance’s CarelonRx customers waited weeks for prescriptions or received medications that could have harmed them. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jun 2024
New pharmacy agreement delivers cheaper medicines
3 June 2024 - The Albanese Government and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia have signed the eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 May 2024
Protecting Australians from unsafe compounding of replica weight loss products
22 May 2024 - The Albanese Government is acting to protect Australians from the risks posed by injecting potentially unsafe ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 May 2024
Chemists to lose dollar discount option as government bows to Pharmacy Guild pressure
16 May 2024 - Chemist Warehouse will be stripped of its ability to give its customers $1 off their medicines, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Apr 2024
Boost for pharmacists for flu season
20 April 2024 - The Albanese Government is protecting Australians in aged care and disability homes by funding pharmacists for the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Mar 2024
Securing cheaper medicines and improved patient outcomes through 8th Community Pharmacy Agreement
14 March 2024 - The Albanese Government and Pharmacy Guild of Australia have reached a Heads of Agreement for an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2024
Cheaper medicines with twice as many medicines now available for a 60 day prescription
3 March 2024 - The Albanese Government is making medicines cheaper by doubling the number of medicines now available for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Feb 2024
Regulator acts to close loophole enabling Australian pharmacists to make copycat Ozempic drug
29 February 2024 - The TGA will move to ban compounding pharmacists from making their own versions of injectable weight ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Dec 2023
CVS’s new drug payment plan won’t lower patients’ prices, experts warn
5 December 2023 - CVS Health is promising to simplify how its pharmacies get paid for drugs. But that doesn’t ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Dec 2023
CVS plans to overhaul how much drugs cost
5 December 2023 - The nation’s biggest drugstore chain to get paid based on the amount it pays for drugs, plus ...