Prices for brand-name drugs in the U.S. are three times what the same drugs cost in other countries. And in a recent KFF survey, 3 in 10 adults reported not taking their medicine as prescribed at some ...

Payouts to shareholders of large publicly traded health companies more than tripled over the past two decades, new research ...

Across healthcare system, stakeholders share blame for high costs. This includes hospitals, drugmakers, insurers and others ...

Lisa Quarrell has been campaigning tirelessly for six years to have her youngest son’s lifesaving medical cannabis prescribed ...

California state senator Scott Wiener has introduced two bills, SB 40 and SB 41, to lower the cost of prescription drugs for ...

As Washington combats overdoses from fentanyl and other drugs, addiction centers say a gap in funding for patients' room and ...

Providers are sympathetic to Medicare enrollees’ concerns but don’t agree on their role in helping patients find less costly ...

CMS recently issued a statement saying that it's continuing the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program but is leaving the door open for potential changes. Experts weighed in on what changes could be ...

A Maryland mom got diagnosed with a condition she didn’t know she had. Then she couldn’t afford the medicine. Now, state ...

Drugmakers offer “copay assistance programs” to help people afford expensive medicines. But health insurers are milking these ...

When it comes to health insurance, prescription ... time. These changes are called formulary changes. They can also include “step therapy” or “fail first” requirements or prior authorization ...

The root of the U.S.’s high prescription drug prices lies in its unique system, which allows pharmaceutical manufacturers to ...