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A UnitedHealthcare branch in Brooklyn, New York, March 5, 2018. In response to growing consumer frustration over drug prices, UnitedHealthcare, one of the nationâ€™s largest health insurers, said on Tuesday it will stop keeping millions of dollars in discounts it gets from drug companies and share them with its customers. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times) XNYT10 XNYT10

March 12, 2019 at 11:56 am

UnitedHealthcare will expand a drug discount program aimed at lowering consumer costs

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September 29, 2018 at 4:31 pm

Sloan Kettering hospital exec must turn over windfall stake in biotech firm

A vice president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has to turn over to the hospital nearly $1.4 million in light of a series of...

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September 8, 2018 at 6:55 pm

Top cancer researcher didn’t list corporate ties when he published studies

Dr. José Baselga, the chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, has held board memberships or advisory roles with Roche...

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July 29, 2018 at 5:36 pm

Meet the rebate, the new villain of high prescription-drug prices

Rebates, critics say, have pushed up the list price of brand-name drugs, which consumers are increasingly responsible for paying. Insurers generally get to keep the...

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PillPack’s other common pharmacy items, like testing supplies, inhalers, and creams, along with the easy-to-open packets, that fit into a discreet dispenser, and your medication, including vitamins and OTC’s, sorted by the dose.

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PillPack is designed to serve people who manage multiple medications. Each month, customers receive a personalized roll of pre-sorted medications, along with a convenient dispenser and any other medications that cannot be placed into packets, like liquids and inhalers. Each shipment includes a medication label that has a picture of each pill and notes on how it should be taken. PillPack uses PharmacyOS, a software platform created entirely in-house, to help manage each customer’s medications, coordinate refills and renewals, and make sure each shipment is sent on time, every time. PharmacyOS also enables real-time notifications and and an online dashboard so customers can control their shipments, refills, and copays. Customers can also email, text, or call their PillPack pharmacist any time to ask questions or clarify instructions.

June 28, 2018 at 7:02 am

Amazon jumps into the drug business with $1B deal to buy online pharmacy PillPack

The deal is precisely the kind of news that the health care industry has been fearing for months, as Amazon hinted it was interested in...

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May 9, 2018 at 8:45 pm

Mueller investigators asked firms about payments to Trump-fixer Cohen

The companies’ arrangements with Michael Cohen show how corporate executives reached outside usual channels to establish ties to a new administration that seemed to play...

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President Donald Trump arrives back at the White House in Washington after a trip to West Virginia, April 5, 2018. Aboard Air Force One, Trump denied knowing of a $130,000 payment his lawyer made to a pornographic film actress who claims to have had a sexual encounter with him, referring questions to his personal lawyer; the remarks were Trump’s first on the matter. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)

April 7, 2018 at 3:45 pm

Why Trump’s tariffs could raise the cost of a hip replacement

The proposed tariffs have unsettled the medical-device and supply industries, given that a growing number of products and their components are now manufactured in China.

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March 8, 2018 at 3:43 pm

Health insurer Cigna buying Express Scripts for $52 billion

The changes across the health-care landscape come amid widespread frustration among U.S. businesses and individuals over the complexity of a system in which doctors, hospitals,...

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Patrik Swanljung, a retiree on Medicare, holds his bottle of a generic cholesterol drug, in Anacortes, Wash., Oct. 14, 2017. Some consumers are finding that they can get a better deal on prescription drugs by leaving their insurance cards at home. (Evan McGlinn/The New York Times)

December 9, 2017 at 6:23 pm

One way to slash drug prices: Leave insurance card at home

People are shocked to discover they can sometimes get better deals on prescription drugs than their own insurers.

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FILE Ñ A location of the drugstore chain CVS Health in Brooklyn, Jan. 10, 2016. CVS is in talks to buy Aetna, one of the nationÕs largest health insurance companies Ñ a deal that could be worth more than $60 billion, the New York Times reported on Oct. 26, 2017. The deal would be one of the largest in the history of the health industry. (Christian Hansen/The New York Times)

October 27, 2017 at 6:38 pm

Hearing Amazon’s footsteps, the health-care industry shudders

The latest category alarmed by the specter of competition from Amazon is the pharmacy market. The likelihood of Amazon eventually getting into the business is...

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