Medical & Prescription Drug Audits for Companies | TFG Partners

The cost of prescription drugs — in particular, generics — is increasingly lower when patients purchase the medications directly from online suppliers and leave their insurance cards out of the equation, according to a collaborative effort by the New...

As drug prices have spiraled upward in the past decade, tens of millions of generally law-abiding Americans have committed an illegal act in response: They have bought prescriptions outside the U.S. and imported them.
One was Debra Miller, of Collinston, La., who traveled to Mexico four times a year for 10 years to get diabetes and blood pressure medicine. She quit in 2011 after the border patrol caught her returning to the U.S. with a three-month supply that had...

The number of doctors who each prescribe millions of dollars of medications annually in Medicare’s drug program has soared, driven by expensive hepatitis C treatments and rising drug prices overall, federal data obtained by ProPublica shows.
The number of providers who topped the $5 million mark for prescriptions increased more than tenfold, from 41 in 2011 to 514 in 2015. The number of prescribers—mostly physicians but also nurse practitioners–exceeding $10 million in drug costs jumped...

We remain a bit skeptical of the studies mentioned in our previous post from KHN. Please look at the study dates, the data is from  between 2007 and 2013. Many Pharma companies have boosted the price in the last two years and we are just seeing costs...