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1) this is a lot more uncommon than people seem to suggest. Note from this article, they found -288- docs. In a country with a little over 1,000,000 physicians.
by arkades 8y ago
1) this is a lot more uncommon than people seem to suggest. Note from this article, they found -288- docs. In a country with a little over 1,000,000 physicians.
2) the real problem is the legislation congress pushed through barring Medicare from negotiating drug prices. “Many of those sales are driven by Medicare reimbursements. A CNN investigation last year found that Medicare spending on Acthar had risen dramatically -- more than tenfold over six years -- to some $2 billion.” the article went ahead and glossed right over it, but if Medicare is your prime payer and can actually push back on price jumps, -this doesn’t happen-.