Earlier this year, a young man in his mid-thirties with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma came to my oncology clinic for a chemotherapy infusion while waiting on the development of his CAR-T treatment. Under ...
The Georgia House of Representatives is moving forward with a bill (HB 924) to limit so-called “white bagging” — a practice in which insurance companies send drugs to hospitals and doctor’s offices ...
Wayne Winegarden, PhD, of the Pacific Research Institute, explains the harm that white bagging policies cause health systems and how replacing them with new measures to boost market competition could ...
When the Connecticut Prescription Drug Task Force released its 15-page final report in February, most readers likely glossed over a short paragraph tucked away on the final page. But for hospitals, ...
For example, Remicade, used to treat a variety of inflammatory diseases, including Crohn’s, cost on average $1,106 per unit in 2015 under hospitals’ traditional buy-and-bill system, the commission ...