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Eli Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy for Home Delivery of Drugs

XTalks

LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions, Eli Lilly’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) drugs website, is teaming up with Amazon Pharmacy to deliver select medications to people’s homes. Physicians can send prescriptions for their patients either to LillyDirect Pharmacy Solutions or Amazon Pharmacy.

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STAT+: Civica Rx begins selling its first generic drug as it tries to overhaul the pharmaceutical supply chain

STAT News

In the latest bid to address high prescription drug costs, a nonprofit plans to sell a cheaper generic version of an expensive cancer medicine in the U.S. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Faster FDA Approvals Don’t Affect Generic Drug Availability or Cost

Pharmacy Checkers

I’m proud to share that PharmacyChecker has published a white paper that examines prices and availability of newly approved generic drugs. Our report, based on 40 generic medications that were approved from 2017-2018, clearly shows that generic drug approvals often don’t lead to greater affordability or even access here in the U.S.

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

Then there is the cost of generic drugs. Mark Cuban made a big splash in the world of gener­ic medications when he launched a new com­pa­ny ear­li­er this year, pledg­ing to on­ly charge a 15% mark-up for its gener­ic medicines, Wide­spread cost sav­ings from us­ing Cuban’s new com­pa­ny could be steep.

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PBMs and insurers want your prescription money

World of DTC Marketing

anti-kickback law that the drugmaker said prevented it from helping heart failure patients, many with low incomes, afford the medicine that costs $225,000 annually. A drug’s out-of-pocket cost is primarily the result of decisions made by insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

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China Opens the Door to Personal Medicine Imports and Third-Party Online Platform Sales

Pharmacy Checkers

A new Chinese law (in effect as of December 1, 2019) makes third-party online platform medicine sales legal, appropriately ends a draconian definition of counterfeit drugs, and effectively decriminalizes personal drug importation, but with a lot of gray! Decriminalizing Personal Drug Importation and Redefining “Counterfeit”.

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Drug Channels News Roundup, February 2021: Accumulator Problems, Humana + ESI, White Bagging Battles, Buy-and-Bill Economics, and Pharmacy Hero Dave Marley

Drug Channels

In this issue: Payers confess: Patients lose from copay accumulators Humana joins the Express Scripts GPO Hospitals vs. PBMs over specialty pharmacy white bagging Let’s all follow the Buy-and-Bill Dollar! Plus, entrepreneurial pharmacy owner Dave Marley demonstrates the power of innovation. Marley Drug generated $1.7