Expected out of-pocket costs for commonly prescribed brand name medications have grown substantially for Medicare Part D beneficiaries as drug plans increasingly tie patient costs to list prices, ...

A senior citizen faces step costs for Ozempic. Which prescription drug plan should she choose and are there any other options ...

Lawmakers and providers need to step in before the program’s financial stability is threatened, Ron Williams, Diane Hansen, ...

Physicians have explained why their writing on prescription notes is mostly ineligible for readers, clarifying that bad handwriting isn’t peculiar to doctors alone. Though they acknowledged that most ...

Earlier this month, a newer patient came in to see me for a check-up and discussion about her extremely high cholesterol level. In her late 50s with a family history of early-age heart attack ...

A provision about insulin in the Inflation Reduction Act is conflated with a 2022 executive order by former President Joe Biden on lowering prescription drug costs in posts online that suggest ...

Xarelto is a brand name of the drug rivaroxaban. Medicare covers the cost of prescription medications, including Xarelto, under certain conditions. A person must be enrolled in a Medicare Part D ...

A South Australian GP has been suspended over an inappropriate relationship with a patient in her 80s. Hemant Kumar Vanmali had an intimate relationship with the woman whom he had treated for more ...

For the first time outside of pregnancy, I — an emergency doctor — experienced what it feels like to be a patient. It was not, to put it mildly, a pleasant experience. I sought treatment when I was ...

The PBM system intentionally blocks lower-cost, FDA-approved biosimilars from being available to patients. Biosimilars are the commonsense, bipartisan solution to out-of-control prescription drug ...

The majority of Americans think prescription drug costs are unreasonable and believe a major contributor to the high cost is profits made by pharmaceutical companies, a survey by KFF found.