State Health Lawmakers' Digest: Prescription Drug Pricing (Vol. 2, No. 3), Digging Deeper

DIGGING DEEPER

A web site at http://rxpolicy.com/ provides links to a wide range of research and policy reports on drug pricing. It also includes links to the sites of several other groups including manufacturers, advocates, and researchers active in prescription drug issues.

Medicaid: Purchasing Prescription Drugs discusses federal law and state options related to purchasing prescription drugs under Medicaid. The report, published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, can be found at http://www.kff.org/content/2002/20020213/4025.pdf A related Kaiser publication, found at http://www.kff.org/content/2002/20020213/2225.pdf presents survey information on drug purchasing practices across the states.

Prescription Drug Expenditures in 2001: Another Year of Escalating Costs, published by the National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM), is available at http://www.nihcm.org/spending2001.pdf The report, issued in the spring of 2002, discusses trends in prescription drug expenditures. NIHCM is a non-profit organization that conducts research on health care issues.

The site of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of American (PhRMA) at http://www.phrma.org/press/newsreleases/2001-05-07.221.phtml includes a response to the NIHCM report, along with background papers, fact sheets, policy statements and other publications.

AdvancePCS Advisor 2001 Drug Trends Report, by AdvancePCS, shows pharmaceutical industry and drug utilization trends based on data for 75 million Americans. The report also looks at innovations and upcoming pipeline drugs in twelve key therapeutic drug classes. fine it listed under "Drug Trends" at http://www.advanceparadigm.com/az/customer.htm

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