Hospital chargemaster prices for generics up to 6,000% more than pharmacies, research finds

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

Hospital chargemaster prices for generics up to 6,000% more than pharmacies, research finds https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/hospitals-can-charge-6-000-higher-prices-for-generic-drugs-than-pharmacies-research-finds.html Chargemaster prices for generic drugs in hospitals can be 6,000 percent higher than the price of the same drug in a pharmacy, according to an analysis by GoodRx, a pharmacy discount company.  GoodRx analyzed chargemaster prices for 12 common generic drugs […]

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Josh Bloom : PROP’s Self-Serving Letter to the AMA Must Be Addressed. My Comments

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

PROP’s Self-Serving Letter to the AMA Must Be Addressed. My Comments https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/07/01/props-self-serving-letter-ama-must-be-addressed-my-comments-15641 Last year the American Medical Association directly challenged the CDC’s disastrous Guidance for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, which was issued in 2016. Not surprisingly, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP), a group that was (for some mysterious reason) directly involved with the […]

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