It 'maybe was just a wild and crazy coincidence' drug company Moderna announced a plan to give free COVID vaccines to uninsured Americans right as a Senate committee asked them to testify — but it was 'a step in the right direction,' Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday.
In many cases, the price quotes that patients see on the website are higher than they'd get at their local pharmacy. It has to do with the segment Cuban is playing in — generic drugs — but also the layers of complexity peculiar to the American health system.
On Wednesday, after its CEO agreed to appear in front of the HELP committee, Moderna announced a new 'patient assistance program' to begin this May that will provide millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans the vaccine free of cost.
There's a morose metaphor that seasoned drug developers often use to sum up decades of failed efforts to find treatments for Alzheimer's disease: They call the mind-robbing condition "the graveyard of drug development." But lately, sentiments have started to shift, with the arrival of Leqembi, a new drug approved by federal regulators in January.
CVS's announcement of its $10.6 billion deal for Oak Street Health (OSH) is just the latest example of how major healthcare players are slowly expanding their reach throughout different segments of the industry.
For four years, Kathryn Jackson has been filling prescriptions at her local pharmacy with no problems. But this month, Jackson and other Kaiser Permanente customers with prescriptions for maintenance medications received notice from the company they would need to switch to the company’s own mail-order pharmacy for refills if they wanted their prescriptions covered.