Jonathan D. Rockoff
During its third-quarter earnings call today, big PBM Medco Health Solutions gave its new 10-year projections on the generics pipeline, with not-so-muted glee.
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MEwens
Also: a report that Walgreen is looking to sell PBM; the difficulty of weight-loss drug development; hormones and pets.
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MEwens
The study is the latest addition to a growing genre of medical research based on the giant databases of drug claims assembled by pharmacy-benefit managers.
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Katherine Hobson
Almost 30% of people whose antidepressant doses were increased hadn’t been taking their earlier, lower dose regularly.
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MEwens
Pharmacy benefit managers and insurers are attempting to predict when people will stop taking their meds or develop medical problems before they even do so.
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Katherine Hobson
Small changes — such as offering the auto-refill option before the prescription is ordered — may improve compliance.
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MEwens
They wanted more financial details on the long-term contract.
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Pharmacy-benefit manager Medco Health Solutions reported earnings today, and the results didnt seem to surprise Wall Street too much even though its shares declined. But the company took some time on its call with analysts to highlight its growing push into original research.
Medco made a bit of a splash in 2008 when […]
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JGrimes
The Senate Finance Committee keeps wading through that long list of amendments to the Baucus bill, and interesting nuggets keep popping up. The latest to catch our eye: An amendment adopted today that would force pharmacy benefit managers that participate in health-insurance exchanges to share key information with the government.
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JGrimes
When a company moves up its earnings announcement by two days without a clear explanation, it’s worth a closer look. Here’s some of what was in the company’s Q2 results reported this morning.
Aetna, the third-largest insurer in the U.S, cut its earnings forecast for the second time in two months. It said it […]
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