All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Business of Medicine

CVS Caremark (CVS) launched its new Health Savings Pass, which allows customers to buy 90 day supplies of over 400 generics for $9.99 (after paying an enrollment fee of $10). The new program sounds like a logical pre-emptive strike against anticipated share losses. Translation: an old-fashioned, race-to-the-bottom...

Significant decline scheduled procedures. Greater activity in Emergency Room combined with increase in uninsured and underinsured patients. A difficult outlook for Acute care facilities.

The Obama vision is based on science driving the prescription process.  As such, DTC advertising and the sampling of brand name medications will either be restricted or incentives provided to MDs to replace samples with vouchers.  PBMs will be required to be absolutely transparent and Medicare...

Not just hospitals, but many players will see receivables drop including wellness and disease management companies, imaging diagnostics and labs, and soon manufacturers.

The law is needed and necessary.  Technology may not be the best solution in every case. 

President elect Obama will try , most probably unsuccessfully, to take on insurance companies in orfder to fulfill his election promises of "close to universal" health care. Generics will thrive, but Big Phrama , especially those with innovative products and biotech companies will continue to pr...

President-Elect Obama made reforming the U.S. healthcare system a central plank of his campaign.  A key initiative calls for spending $10 billion a year over the next five years ($50 billion total) to computerize health records and prescribe more treatments digitally. 

The implication is that our new chief executive has "bigger fish to fry" than attaching drug costs??

A just-published article in Drug Benefit News provides new details about the Wal-Mart’s (WMT) $0 generic co-pay program with Caterpillar (CAT). Anyone involved in the pharmacy channel – pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), insurers, payers, drug wholesalers – should be paying attention to the...

"As part of the restructuring, the company plans to group its sales staff around specific treatment areas" including oncology, probably