Strategy-Pricing

Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced with picking up the entire cost of their prescriptions, researchers say.

Paying physicians to devote more time to their patients, insurers hope to scale back costly treatments later.

Medi-Cal slashed reimbursement for prescription drugs in California by 10%, effective July 1.

Democrats moved swiftly on Friday to assail Republican senators for voting against a major Medicare bill and said the Republicans should be held responsible for a 10 percent cut...

but they have carved out exemptions for a few institutions represented by influential senators and well-connected lobbyists.

ATLANTA — This year's flu season has shaped up to be the worst in three years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday.

Health insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs,

In the 1990s, drug companies trumpeted a new class of drugs, atypical antipsychotics,

Having doctors distribute free samples of medicines may do exactly what drug companies hope for — encourage patients to spend more money on drugs.