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Prescription Drug Costs
BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura
Gordon-Murnane. Documents and Reports are arranged first by
federal government, state governments, international governments,
and nongovernment organizations. E-mail suggestions for future weekly
topics always welcome.
Federal Government
Congressional Budget Office
Testimony,
statement of Dan L. Crippen, director, projections of medicare and
prescription drug spending, before the Committee on Finance, United
States Senate (March 7, 2002)
Congressional Research Service
Medicare:
Selected Prescription Drug Proposals in the 107th Congress,
Jennifer O'Sullivan, (Updated Oct. 30, 2001)
Government Accounting Office
Prescription
Drugs: Prices Available Through Discount Cards and From Other Sources
( Dec. 5, 2001)
Health and Human Services
Office of the Inspector General, Medicaid Pharmacy—Actual
Acquisition Cost of Generic Prescription Drug Products (A-06-01-00053),
Testimony
of Janet Rehnquist (March 4, 2002)
House Small Business Committee
Medicare
Endorsed Prescription Drug Discount Cards and Their Impact on Small
Business (Oct. 25, 2001)
White House
Senate Finance Committee The
Administration's FY 2003 Budget Proposals for Prescription Drugs
( March 7, 2002)
Nongovernment Organizations
Alliance for Health Reform
Medicare
Prescription Drug Cards: What Are They? What Are They Worth?
(November 19, 2001) Washington, D.C.
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Business
Leaders Identify Healthcare Cost Drivers: BCBSA Research Highlights
Perception of Key Cost Drivers (March 7, 2002)
Boston University -School of Public Health
The Shape of a Prescription Drug Peace Treaty, by Alan Sager, director,
Health Reform Program, 10th
Annual Invitational Conference on Pharmaceutical Costs, (Jan.
28-30, 2002 )
Center for Policy Alternatives
Summary
of Legislative Activity on Prescription Drug Prices (update
March 18, 2002)
Families USA
Assessment
of the Discount Card Plan (March 2002)
Prescription
Drugs in Medicaid: Achieving ''Real'' Cost Savings
Kaiser Family Foundation
Prescription
Drug Trends: A Chartbook, Updated November 2001
National Institute of Health Care Management
Prescription
Drug Expenditures in 2001: Another Year of Escalating Costs
(May 2002)
New England Journal of Medicine
Compliance
among Pharmacies in California with a Prescription-Drug Discount
Program for Medicare Beneficiaries, Joy H. Lewis et al., Vol.
346:830-835, No. 11, (abstract only) (March 14, 2002)
Public Citizen
Patently
Offensive: Congress Set to Extend Monopoly Patents for Cipro and
Other Drugs (November 2001)
Public Health Institute
Pharmaceutical
Discounts Under Federal Law: State Program Opportunities, Bill
von Oehsen, Aug. 10, 2001
Rand Institute
E-Prescribe
Expert Advisory Panel to Develop Standards for Electronic Prescribing
RxPolicy
The
President's Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Program
USAction
Bad
Policy, Bad Medicine: Bush Plans for Taxes and Prescription Drugs
Unfair to Working Families and Seniors (February 2001)
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