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2025 WalletHub Drug Use Rankings
12 Jun 2025 17:08 GMT
… drug problems, according to our 2025 rankings, are:
Florida
Connecticut
Nebraska
Utah … into other drugs—whether illegal street drugs or counterfeit prescription medications. That … , U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid …
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Layin’ It on the Line: Planning for health care costs beyond Medicare — Are you prepared for the unexpected?
11 Jun 2025 17:09 GMT
… the middle of a Utah snowstorm.
What Medicare doesn’t cover
First … a Medigap policy or a Medicare Advantage plan), you could … of prescription drug costs, which have been rising rapidly. Medicare Part D … for health care costs beyond Medicare isn’t about fear — …
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Profits Over Patients? A Big Pharmaceutical Company Is Suing the State of Utah.
10 Jun 2025 21:01 GMT
… particularly ones under patent.
Utah's S.B. … manufacturers participating in Medicare must sell outpatient drugs at significantly … additional category of patented drug sales (contract pharmacy sales … but needs a particular medication, the hospital' …
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Utah's federal delegation votes with Trump to neuter the courts.
04 Jun 2025 19:52 GMT
… far.
That's why Utah's delegation to the … . The world's richest drug abuser gave candidate Trump $275 … cutting funding for scientific research, Medicare, nutrition for poor kids, Social … Iowa fended off criticism of Medicare cuts at a town hall …
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Tackling America’s High Drug Prices
31 May 2025 05:06 GMT
… of its total drug spending on medications released in that … systems. Rodwin argues that Medicare’s drug price negotiation authority under … for the first ten drugs selected. Medicare spent $97.4 billion … Contreras of the University Utah assess a most favored …
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'Distruptive collaboration': How Utah company is working to bring prescription drug prices down
23 May 2025 13:54 GMT
LEHI — A report shows a Lehi company is making a difference and reducing the prices paid for at least one generic medication, and it is planning to bring more medications to patients at lower costs.
CivicaScript was created in 2020 with the intention of …
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How a rural hospital’s Medicaid windfall could cost Utah millions
20 May 2025 08:00 GMT
… the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services … reports already show: missed medications, poor hygiene, pressure sores … in supplemental Medicaid funds, Utah’s UPL facilities consistently … hospital projects.
“The Utah Legislature sought feedback from …
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MAY 19—YOUR LOCAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST ON INSIDE MEDICARE AND MEDICAID WHAT’S COMING
19 May 2025 18:56 GMT
… follows a similar move in Utah and may signal a … the resistance to allowing Medicare/;Medicaid to negotiate? Is … negotiating drugs under that program. Notably, the government can negotiate drug prices … reduce the cost of medications?”
The IRA is not dead …
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Controversial changes to drug pricing program are progressing through state legislatures
12 May 2025 20:39 GMT
… done so in recent weeks.
Utah's SB 69, … , prohibiting drug distributors from denying CEs access to 340B drugs. North … cost for covered outpatient drugs at hospital outpatient departments.… adjustments that would align the Medicare payment with the cost …
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Trump signs order demanding pharma slash U.S. drug costs
12 May 2025 17:30 GMT
… Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, in May 2019. President … on anticompetitive practices in the drug industry. He was expected … pricing on a subset of Medicare drugs.
“Implementing something like this … the export of pharmaceutical drugs or ingredients that may …