During a yearslong examination of drug prices, there’s been no shortage of criticism for growing list prices, and in recent months, some companies have heard the talk and lowered their prices. Now, ...

When the user enters a drug into the text box and clicks search, the system searches the current formulary first (brand and generic names). If a match is found for a particular medication, the salt ...

Why aren’t all drugs covered by insurance? A formulary is the list of prescription medications covered by a health insurance plan. The list typically has brand-name and generic options. In addition to ...

As health care moves toward a value-based payment model, the pharmacy benefit is going in the opposite direction, one that places unit cost over clinical appropriateness. Have you ever used your drug ...

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 Medicare drug list, also called a formulary, lists the prescription drugs and vaccines that Medicare covers. Medicare provides this coverage through Medicare Part D or Medicare Advantage (also ...

Express Scripts Holding, a pharmacy benefit manager that negotiates drug prices for many health plans, will launch a formulary with lower list price drugs in an effort to reduce reliance on rebates ...

Although most factors in our univariate and multivariate analyses had similar directions (e.g., a positive association was found between HMO affiliation and providers' knowledge of formularies), the ...

Tricare plans next week to expand its coverage of drugs used to treat premenopausal women with low sexual desire, a Tricare official said via email Thursday. Over the last five years, the Food and ...

A Department of Veterans Affairs panel has pushed back against efforts to rush a controversial anti-depression drug into use for its patients, voting not to include the drug, Spravato, on its list of ...

Why aren't all drugs covered by insurance? A formulary is the list of prescription medications covered by a health insurance plan. The list typically has brand-name and generic options. In addition to ...