BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Spun out of research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Vironexis claims it will be the first company to start a study testing a cancer drug delivered via the adeno-associated viruses commonly used in genetic medicines.

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Drugs.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

coli has been identified at a children's hospital in China.Already, so-called ST410 strains of the E. THURSDAY, Feb. 1, 2024 -- A new and worrisome antibiotic-resistant form of E. coli bacterium -- resistant to last-resort antibiotics called.

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Drugs.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

25, 2025 -- A listeria outbreak tied to frozen shakes served in hospitals and long-term care facilities has sickened at least 38 people and killed 12, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). TUESDAY, Feb. The shakes, which are not.

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Drugs.com

MARCH 20, 2025

THURSDAY, March 20, 2025 -- A newly approved clot- busting drug for stroke works as well as a decades-old medication still used by most U.S. hospitals, and can be delivered even more quickly, a new study says.Tenecteplase (TNKase) is the first new.

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Drug Channels

JUNE 4, 2024

It’s time for the annual update to Drug Channels Institute’s (DCI) analysis of pharmacist salaries and employment. Pharmacist employment at drug stores shrank but grew at supermarkets and mass merchants. What’s ahead for 340B-eligible hospitals? 2023 was another tough year for pharmacists working in retail settings. pharmacists.

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Drug Channels

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As many of you know, hospitals and health systems have emerged as significant participants in the specialty pharmacy industry. A new American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP) survey provides fresh insights into these specialty pharmacies. I then highlight how hospitals steer prescriptions to their internal specialty pharmacies.

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Drugs.com

OCTOBER 31, 2023

31, 2023 -- In some big cities, mobile stroke units can deliver a powerful clot-busting drug to patients as these specialized ambulances speed to the hospital. TUESDAY, Oct. Now, a new study shows these units deliver anti-clotting treatment a.

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Drugs.com

AUGUST 9, 2023

9, 2023 -- About 1 in 5 newborns hospitalized for surgery to treat a life-threatening bowel infection are given opioids for pain relief and some then need methadone to wean off the addictive drugs. WEDNESDAY, Aug. But there is wide variability in.

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Drug Channels

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2022, specialty pharmacies—via white, brown, and clear bagging—now constitute a meaningful share of the distribution channels for provider-administered oncology drugs. However, buy-and-bill appears to have rebounded substantially at hospitals. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Drug Channels

JUNE 6, 2022

Time for an update to the Drug Channels Institute (DCI) annual analysis of pharmacist salaries and employment. We found that retail pharmacies and drugstores employed fewer pharmacists, while hospitals and outpatient centers continued to add positions. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

diff -- the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections -- are important for infection in an animal model and could offer new targets for antibacterial drugs. Newly discovered iron storage 'ferrosomes' inside the bacterium C.

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Drug Discovery Today

MARCH 18, 2020

Drug Discovery Today has today published a pre print of an editorial by Yongtao Duan, Hai-Liang Zhu and Chongchen Zhou of Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Children’s Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450018, China

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Drug Channels

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Curl up with your favorite pumpkin-spiced blog and savor these stories harvested from the Drug Channels patch: Fresh insights about hospitals’ specialty drug profits SSR Update: Drug prices keep dropping My $0.02 d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. Drug Channels® is a registered trademark of Pembroke Consulting, Inc.

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Drug Channels

AUGUST 11, 2021

Medicare payments continued to their shift from physician practices to hospital outpatient departments. . This spending change would have been even more pronounced if CMS had not reduced reimbursements to 340B hospitals. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. Drug Channels® is a registered trademark of Pembroke Consulting, Inc.

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Drug Channels

AUGUST 15, 2022

Here’s a summer surprise for fans of the 340B Drug Pricing Program: Drug Channels has just obtained the 2021 figures from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)! Hospitals accounted for 87% of these skyrocketing 340B purchases. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. The data tell a familiar story. billion (+$7.0

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CLEVELAND—University Hospitals (UH) Brain Health & Memory Center is now treating patients with LEQEMBI® (lecanemab), a Food and Drug Administration-approved medication for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Launched from BrainChild founder Michael Jensen’s lab at the Washington-area hospital, the company is focusing first on pediatric brain tumors.

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for today’s live video webinar: Drug Channels Outlook 2023. Here’s a summer surprise for fans of the 340B Drug Pricing Program: Drug Channels has just obtained the 2021 figures from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)! d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Drug Channels

MAY 30, 2023

d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. Drug Channels® is a registered trademark of Pembroke Consulting, Inc. Summer unofficially began over the weekend. to 1:30 p.m. Click here to learn more and sign up. Read more » Copyright © 2006-2023 Pembroke Consulting, Inc. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Drug Channels

OCTOBER 27, 2021

So grab your pillow case and stuff it with treats from the great Drug Channels pumpkin patch: Spooky! PBMs are conjuring a terrifying number of formulary exclusions for oncology drugs Eerie! Scream as Blue Cross Blue Shield frightfully overpays hospitals Shocking! d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. Brrr.did you hear that?

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Drug Hunter

AUGUST 21, 2023

Obtaining adequate drug exposure in the brain is key to treating CNS diseases effectively. Recently, Dennis Koester gave us a crash course in CNS drug discovery in a Drug Hunter Flash Talk. Why Kp,uu is the Most Important Parameter in CNS Drug Discovery What Influences the Kp,uu of Drugs?

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Drug Channels

JULY 25, 2023

Let’s cut through the steamy summer haze with Drug Channels ’ refreshing breeze of questions for you to ponder while on your favorite pink beach: Why does the biggest PBM need a discount card partner? Do nonprofit hospitals deserve their tax exemption? d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. I’m not posting to Threads yet.)

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Drug Channels

AUGUST 29, 2023

Time to pack away your bathing suit, send the kids back to school, and cherish these curated curiosities that I combed from the Jersey Shore: Fresh evidence of patients’ copay maximizer pain How payers pay more to hospitals than to physician offices Surprise? d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. I’m not posting to Threads yet.)

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Drug Channels

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for today's live video webinar: Drug Channels Update: Buy-and-Bill Market Trends. That means it’s time to update Drug Channels Institute’s (DCI) annual analysis of pharmacist salaries and employment. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Drugs.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 -- Sweltering temperatures appear to fuel drug-related hospital visits, a problem that could be worsening with climate change, a new study suggests. “We TUESDAY, Sept. We saw that during periods of higher temperatures, there was a.

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Drugs.com

MARCH 25, 2024

MONDAY, March 25, 2024 — Men with prostate cancer treated at hospitals participating in a special drug-pricing program were more likely to stick to their therapy than patients elsewhere, new research reveals.The federal 340B Drug Program requires.

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Drug Channels

JANUARY 30, 2024

But who needs the Super Bowl when you can tackle this month’s selection of notable news stories, intercepted for you from the Drug Channels gridiron: Punt : Average list prices are unchanged for 2024 Trick Play : GSK tussles with PBMs over lower-priced products Rush! Check out the wonderful comments on this LinkedIn post. Great things ahead.

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Drug Channels

MAY 30, 2022

Let’s turn up the heat with these sizzling news bites straight from the Drug Channels grill: SaveonSP gets sued Thoughts on the Medicaid accumulator rule opinion CVS buys AmerisourceBergen’s specialty pharmacy Fresh data on hospitals’ cancer drug profiteering Plus, Dr. Glaucomflecken explains Aetna’s prior authorization policies.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JANUARY 30, 2024

Excessive administration of analgesic drugs frequently results in medical accidents. To prevent the occurrence of these accidents, a drug infusion pump featuring a technology for safely detecting medication administration has been developed for the first time in the world.

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Drugs.com

JULY 17, 2023

MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay Now) -- Parents now have a new long-acting drug to protect their children against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common germ that hospitalizes as many as 3% of children under the age of 1 in the United States.

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Drug Channels

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As you will see, outpatient drug spending remains a small—and shrinking—share of the $4.1 What's more, drug spending again grew more slowly than overall healthcare spending. Meanwhile, consumers shoulder a much higher portion of this spending compared with their share of hospital spending. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute.

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Drug Channels

JUNE 12, 2024

Drug Channels Institute’s exclusive analysis of the 2024 market reveals that: About 33,000 pharmacy locations—more than half of the entire U.S. pharmacy industry—act as contract pharmacies for the hospitals and federal grantees that participate in the 340B program. The 340B contract pharmacy market shows little sign of slowing down.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 4, 2024

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for tomorrow’s live video webinar: Drug Channel Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act. For updated data on hospital-owned specialty pharmacies, see Chapter 3 of DCI's new 2024 Economic Report on U.S. drug channels gets most of the attention.

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Ring in 2022 with these noisemakers from the Drug Channels party bag: Hospitals earn incredible markups on CAR-T therapies Utilization management booms Health plans often ignore clinical guidelines Benefit designs flummox physicians Plus: an awesomely concise summary of U.S. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. health insurance.

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Drug Channels

AUGUST 8, 2023

Click here to read the Drug Channels Institute letter to Senators Thune, Stabenow, Moore Capito, Baldwin, Moran, and Cardin. d/b/a Drug Channels Institute. Drug Channels® is a registered trademark of Pembroke Consulting, Inc. I shared my $0.02 How could I not? Read more » Copyright © 2006-2023 Pembroke Consulting, Inc.

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Drug Channels

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Consider two apparently unrelated drug channel anomalies: In McKesson’s 2023 fiscal year, CVS bought $75 billion in pharmaceuticals from McKesson’s wholesale business—a jump of more than 35% compared with the previous year. Despite skyrocketing sales for anti-obesity GLP-1 drugs, many retail pharmacies are losing money on every prescription.

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Drug Channels

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Drug Channels Institute’s exclusive analysis of the 2024 market reveals that: About 33,000 pharmacy locations—more than half of the entire U.S. pharmacy industry—act as contract pharmacies for the hospitals and federal grantees that participate in the 340B program. Click here to see the original post from June 2024. Fein, Ph.D.,

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