Buying Brand-Name Drugs Over Generics Raises Medicaid Costs

Medicaid, the joint U.S.-state health program for the poor, spent $329 million extra in 2009 purchasing 20 brand-name drugs instead of available generic copies, Read More

Fewer fill "dispense
as written"
prescriptions

Patients are less likely to fill prescriptions when their doctors specify that brand name drugs can't be substituted with generics, according to a new study.
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