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Upcoming Events featuring
National CooperativeRx
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Mid-Sized Retirement & Healthcare Plan Management Conference*
March 18-21, 2012
San Francisco, CA
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*As a sponsor of this educational event, National CooperativeRx is pleased to provide you and your benefits team with a $200 discount. This lowers your registration fee to $795 each when you register by February 23, 2012. To Register: * Register here and enter the code YNCR * Call the Conference Registrar at 800-864-2063 |
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National CooperativeRx is a not-for-profit coalition founded and owned by plan sponsors to achieve higher value prescription benefits through volume purchasing, clinical solutions, actionable data and unparalleled customer service. For your sales and marketing needs, please contact us at 866-679-9479, extension 223
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Thank you everyone who was able to attend Wednesday's Specialty Management Webinar. We hope you found it informative. For those of you who may have missed the webinar, we will supply a link to the recording in next week's The Script. How healthy is the county you work in?County Health Rankings is a great web site, created and maintained by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. From obesity levels, smoking and unemployment to access to healthy foods and social support, the site analyzes many factors of healthy living.
After analyzing and scoring the counties in each state, the site then ranks each individual county. To see how well your county measures up, click here. |
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Belfast Telegraph. A drug that stops the progression of Alzheimer's? Maybe. Researchers from the University of Ulster discovered that giving mice a hormone to help cells produce insulin improved their memory and protected neurons. The clinical trial for humans will begin this year. (Smyth, 1/17) Full story
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The New York Times. Walgreen's is standing firm on its decision to end relations with Express Scripts. This could potentially cost Walgreen's $4B in annual revenue, and gives competing pharmacies such as CVS Caremark an opportunity to pick up the prescriptions that Walgreen's will no longer be filling. (Japsen, 1/11) Full story
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Bloomberg. The rising rate of obesity leveled off over the past decade, after nearly doubling during each of the two prior decades. One-third of the US population, or 78M people, were obese in 2009-2010. (Flinn, Langreth, Cortez, 1/11) Full story
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Boston Globe. Sales of Lipitor, the cholesterol-lowering brand name of atorvastatin, have dropped to 37% of market share with the release of generic competition in the US. (Johnson, 1/12) Full story
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Columbus Dispatch. Federal officials believe that $4.5B in administrative costs could be avoided by hospitals and insurers over the coming decade if they embrace electronic billing. A 2010 study reveals that $0.12 of every dollar spent by physicians goes to administrative fees. (Hoholik, 1/16) Full story
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The New York Times. Many doctors receive payments from drug companies each year, and those payments can be thousands or millions of dollars. The payments are in exchange for advice or lectures, but researchers have found that the payments can influence doctors' treatment decisions. The Obama administration wants to require drug companies to disclose payments to doctors to avoid medical conflicts of interest. (Pear, 1/16) Full story
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Reuters. The FDA will now be collecting user fees from drug companies that want to speed the review of new generic medicines. The fees will provide hundreds of millions of dollars to help fund the process. (1/13) Full story
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