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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

Civica Rx, which was formed four years ago, is working with a generic manufacturer to supply pharmacies with the abiraterone prostate cancer treatment for $160 for a month’s supply. 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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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Amazon adds $5 monthly generic drug subscription; PhRMA ends lobbying contract with brother of White House official

STAT News

 Amazon has another Prime prescription savings benefit that offers a discount of up to 80% on generic medications and up to 40% on brand-name prescriptions. Amazon  Amazon has pushed deeper into health care in recent years, including the 2020 launch of its online pharmacy.

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

Then there is the cost of generic drugs. A recent study in the An­nals of In­ter­nal Med­i­cine took a look at al­most 90 gener­ic drugs that the Medicare Part D pro­gram pays for, find­ing that Medicare could’ve saved $3.6 bil­lion in 2020 if it had pur­chased 77 of 89 drugs from Cuban’s firm.

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Top 60 U.S. Brand Name Drug Prices are 75% Lower Internationally, According to Rand Corporation Study

Pharmacy Checkers

The Rand Corporation has released an impressive study showing that brand name drugs cost far more in the United States than in other countries – on average 344% more. For those of you looking for a methodologically strong analysis of international drug prices and a history of related studies, this is the report for you.

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Amazon’s Pharmacy Doesn’t Break Big Pharma’s Hold of America’s Neck

Pharmacy Checkers

Forgetting about the potential dangers to competition from corporate Leviathan Amazon, that it launched a new online pharmacy this week will certainly appeal to tens of millions of Americans. Prescription drugs are yet another thing you can get when you go to Amazon.com. A vial or brand Humalog runs about $30 in Canada.