Doctors up pressure on Medicare on anemia drugs
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U.S. cancer doctors on Thursday plan to ratchet up pressure on the federal Medicare agency to reverse new limits on use of anemia drugs made by Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson.
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record $11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked.
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Medicare, the U.S. insurance program for elderly and disabled Americans, should lump the price of anemia drugs with overall payments for kidney dialysis services to improve efficiency and contain costs, according to a government report released on Tuesday.
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The legal outcome could help protect Amgenâs multibillion dollar anemia drug franchise in the U.S. by blocking Rocheâs plan to introduce a competing medicine.
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WASHINGTON - Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record $11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked...
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In these times when Michigan residents, like most Americans, are struggling to meet the escalating cost of prescription drugs, state officials are offering needed assistance.
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Federal officials say rising costs, increased payments and some new benefits mean Medicare must raise its Part B premium 17% next year for most of the nearly 42 million seniors and disabled people covered by the program.
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Debate about the safety of a group of  anemia drugs widely used in cancer patients should focus on a  minority of patients who got the drugs for unapproved uses,  doctors said on Sunday.
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Medicare payment cuts will leave more than half of clinics and doctors' offices that provide cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday.
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CHICAGO A leading doctor says physicians and patients are obliged to keep a close watch on new prescription drugs for side effects.
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Jane Fumich and her team visit Cleveland's churches, public housing holiday parties and ward club meetings trying to give away the government's money &#151; without much success. A year after the Medicare overhaul became law, the Bush administration is struggling to get the poor signed up for a drug discount card that comes with &#36;1,200 in aid between now and 2006.
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In Christopher Rowland's recent article, a Medicare official characterizes FDA drug labeling policy as setting ``minimum guidelines in terms of what people should be achieving" for red blood cell counts ( ``As kidney drug doses rise, so do warnings," Sept. 14 ).
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As worries for its anemia drugs abate, investors will start to worry about Merck and Novartis.
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Medicare patients will likely have a harder time seeing a doctor if proposed cuts to the program are implemented, according to a survey of doctors released by the American Medical Association on Monday.
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Debate about the safety of a group of anemia drugs widely used in cancer patients should focus on a minority of patients who got the drugs for unapproved uses, doctors said on Sunday.
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Rising cost projections for the new  Medicare drug benefit alarmed U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday and  set off renewed calls to restrain spiraling drug prices and  allow pharmaceutical imports from Canada.
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As doctors voiced anger at an Annapolis rally yesterday over escalating insurance costs, legislative leaders said they remain far from a consensus on how to address the problem before Maryland physicians&#39; bills come due next month.