Over the past five years, drug costs as a percent of total health care dollars have increased 30 percent. These increases have caused prescription drugs to become more costly...
One way to reduce the impact of the opioid epidemic is to ensure that people have access to safe therapies that treat opioid use disorder. To that end, Blue...
Every day, opioid addiction destroys lives and tears apart families in North Carolina. It is a public health emergency that Blue Cross NC is committed to addressing. We’re announcing...
Would you pay $17 for a gallon of milk? You would have to if the cost of milk had increased 500 percent in the last 15 years. Unfortunately, that’s...
If you’ve been reading the news lately, you’ve probably heard about specialty drugs. And more often than not, the news coverage is about how much those drugs cost. What’s...
In December 2016, Eli Lilly & Co. announced a discount program effective in 2017 for people who pay largely out-of-pocket for the company’s insulin products. Check with your insurer...
You’ve probably heard some of the recent conversation about the steep price hikes for the EpiPen, an injection device that delivers epinephrine. Epinephrine is a life-saving hormone given to...
The Rx Cost Debate With prescription drug spending soaring, many consumers and health care experts are wondering if any relief is in sight for the pain of rising costs....