drug costs

Medicare releases huge swath of data on prescription drug costs – spent largely on heart disease, diabetes and GERD

Medicare just released a huge swath of data detailing 2013 prescription drug usage in its Part D program. The data, coming from more than 1 million health care providers, accounts for more than $103 billion in drug costs. It’s reportedly the most detailed list of drug costs the government behemoth’s ever released. The broadly released data […]

By Meghana Keshavan

MIT Study: Cancer drug costs have skyrocketed. Survival rates? Not so much.

In 1995, cancer drugs cost $54,100 for each year of life they were estimated to add. By 2013, these drugs shot up to $207,000, according to a new MIT study. It’s no mystery that drug costs are on the rise – but when you quantify these numbers, they’re numbingly high: Since 1995, a group of 58 […]

By Meghana Keshavan