The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a list of prescription drugs it hopes to include in its new Medicare $2 Drug List Model, the agency announced Wednesday. Designed to limit ...

The model is designed to provide individuals more certainty about the out-of-pocket costs for these generic Part D drugs for common conditions, such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure, CMS ...

Pharmaceutical companies that spend billions of dollars to develop new drugs do not want competitors to profit from inexpensive generic copies of blockbuster medicines. To avoid rivals, they fight for ...

Brand-name medications go through extensive clinical trials to show the safety and efficacy of treatment to receive Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Once FDA-approved, the brand ...

Having multiple prescriptions is difficult enough to keep track of, let alone ones with complicated names. Hill Street Studios/Stone via Getty Images At some point in your life, you’ll likely find ...

Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Emergency Physician at University Health Network, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto In ...

The Medicare Part D program would have saved $977 million in a single year if all branded prescription drugs requested by prescribing clinicians had been substituted by a generic option, according to ...