Trouble Getting Weight Loss Drugs Covered by Insurance? Here鈥檚 What To Know
If your doctor prescribes a GLP-1 medication for weight loss but your insurance won鈥檛 cover it, you have options.
Sydney Lupkin
Sydney Lupkin was a data correspondent for 吃瓜不打烊 until November 2019.
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FDA Keeps Brand-Name Drugs On A Fast Path To Market 鈥 Despite Manufacturing Concerns
The agency approved Gilead鈥檚 鈥済ame changer鈥 hepatitis C cure, bypassing concerns raised by its own federal inspectors.
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Mysterious Vaping Lung Injuries May Have Flown Under Regulatory Radar
Doctors who saw patients with a mysterious lung illness in the past suspected vaping as the cause but didn鈥檛 know where to report such cases.
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Drugmakers Master Rolling Out Their Own Generics To Stifle Competition
Known as 鈥渁uthorized generics,鈥 in-house spinoffs of brand-name drugs quietly undermine the competition.
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Five Things We Found In The FDA鈥檚 Hidden Device Database
The Food and Drug Administration released two decades of previously hidden data containing millions of injuries or malfunctions by medical devices. Here鈥檚 what we鈥檝e learned so far.
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More Than Half Of Surgical Stapler Malfunctions Went To Hidden FDA Database
The FDA reveals that 56,000 malfunctions associated with surgical staplers weren鈥檛 reported through its traditional public reporting system.
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Price Check On Drug Ads: Would Revealing Costs Help Patients Control Spending?
As part of his plan to tamp down drug pricing, President Donald Trump wants pharmaceutical companies to provide cost information in drug ads 鈥 just like side effects.
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Consumers Rejected Drug Plan That Mirrors Trump Administration Proposal
What to know about PBMs and rebates ahead of the Senate drug price hearing on 鈥 you guessed it 鈥 PBMs.
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Big Pharma Gave Money To Patient Advocacy Groups Opposing Medicare Changes
A KHN database shows that $58 million flowed from drugmakers to patient groups running national ads.
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Trump Administration Salutes Parade Of Generic Drug Approvals, But Hundreds Aren鈥檛 For Sale
President Donald Trump and FDA officials have pointed to a surge in generic drug approvals, but a data analysis indicates almost half haven鈥檛 reached the market.
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Secretive 鈥楻ebate Trap鈥 Keeps Generic Drugs For Diabetes And Other Ills Out Of Reach
Patients are often forced into using brand names because drug formularies favor them over cheaper competitors.
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Tainted Drugs
When Medicine Makes Patients Sicker
The Food and Drug Administration is supposed to inspect all factories, foreign and domestic, that produce drugs for the U.S. market. But a KHN review of thousands of FDA documents 鈥 inspection records, recalls, warning letters and lawsuits 鈥 reveals how drugs that are poorly manufactured or contaminated can reach consumers.
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Government Investigation Finds Flaws In the FDA鈥檚 Orphan Drug Program
A probe by the Government Accountability Office cites breakdowns in the Food and Drug Administration program that approves drugs for rare diseases.
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Like Clockwork: How Daylight Saving Time Stumps Hospital Record-Keeping
One of the most popular electronic health records software systems used by hospitals, Epic Systems,聽can delete records or require cumbersome workarounds when clocks are set back for an hour, prompting many hospitals to opt for paper records for part of the night shift.
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Drugmakers Funnel Millions To Lawmakers; A Few Dozen Get $100,000-Plus
Drugmakers' contributions to lawmakers have peaked as surging drug prices emerge as a hot-button political issue. In the past decade, Congress has received nearly $79 million from 68 pharma PACs, run by employees of companies that make drugs treating everything from cancer to erectile dysfunction.
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Pfizer Settles Kickback Case Related To Copay Assistance For $24M
The drugmaker agreed to a settlement with the Justice Department over allegations that it funneled copay assistance money through a foundation to Medicare patients.
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Drugmakers Blamed For Blocking Generics Have Jacked Up Prices And Cost U.S. Billions
The Trump administration is shaming brand-name drugmakers who refuse to sell samples so generics can be made from their products.
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Patient Advocacy Groups Take In Millions From Drugmakers. Is There A Payback?
Kaiser Health News launches 鈥淧re$cription for Power,鈥 a groundbreaking database to expose Big Pharma鈥檚 ties to patient groups.
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Patients Overpay For Prescriptions 23% Of The Time, Analysis Shows
Researchers at the University of Southern California analyzed millions of prescriptions and concluded that close to a quarter paid copays that exceeded the cost of the drugs.
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Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The 鈥楻evolving Door鈥
A KHN data analysis finds that the door of opportunities connecting Capitol Hill, the federal government and the drug industry likely spins in Big Pharma鈥檚 favor.
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