Tax records sought to aid drug benefits
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Tax records would go a long way toward helping the federal government find the elderly and the disabled eligible for extra financial aid with the new drug benefit. But there's a catch: The IRS can't share those records.
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Doctors, nurses and pharmacists with Novant Health spent a good deal of 2001 poring over the medical records of 3,000 patients, looking for any sign that the drugs that patients received had done them some harm as well as some good.
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For most taxpayers, the IRS isn't the only game in town.
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To reduce costs, a number of employers are giving away drugs to help workers manage chronic conditions.
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SACRAMENTO  As an alternative to importing low-cost drugs from Canada, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#39;s administration is calling for a sweeping new program to offer drug discounts to uninsured, low-income California residents.
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Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation that would require makers of drugs and medical devices to register clinical trials of their products in a public database.
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Insured and wealthy Americans are more likely than needy patients to get the billions of dollars in free drug samples distributed by pharmaceutical companies to win patient and doctor loyalty, a study released on Wednesday said.
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Drug companies and other multinational corporations are once again resorting to complex strategies, many of them legal, to shelter profits in international tax havens.
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OTTAWA -- The federal government&#39;s drug-benefit program is wasting tens of millions of dollars and is open to potential abuse by individuals seeking narcotics to feed their addiction and possibly trade and sell them on the black market, states Auditor
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The drug industry, fighting off criticism for hiding data from negative studies, unveiled on Tuesday a database for firms to voluntarily provide summarized results of most clinical trials of medicines sold in the United States.
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The state today will kick off a new drug prescription program that could provide as many as 200,000 lower-income people an average cash savings of 20 percent on drug purchases.
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Some ask whether the public benefits of philanthropy are commensurate with the tax breaks that givers receive.
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Figure out your place on the taxman's sliding scale.
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By Dawn House, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 12--SECURING YOUR INFORMATION: Tax returns are a bonanza of  information that you might consider paying theft-prevention companies to  protect -- or you can do it yourself for free -- says Todd Davis, CEO of  LifeLock, based in Tempe, Ariz.
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Montgomery County's plans to make Canadian prescription drugs available to employees has hit a snag after an analysis by the school system concluded that the practice won't save as much money as hoped and could be more expensive than domestic sources for drugs.
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A U.S. group charged with helping to develop Medicare guidelines released a proposal on Thursday classifying medicines in groups that could determine how likely certain drugs would be covered under a new prescription drug benefit.
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Low-income Americans who get a government subsidy are projected to have most of their spending on prescription medicines wiped away in the Medicare drug benefit that begins in 2006, according to an independent analysis released Monday. But several million people actually would spend more on drugs under the new program.