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GlaxoSmithKline Offers New Tools to Help Patients Get Free Medicines

GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) has launched a new website and toll-free help line to make it easier to enroll in GSK Access, the company's new patient assistance program for low income Medicare Part D patients. Beginning today, patients can log onto http://www.gsk-access.com/ or call 1-866-475-3678 to get information on GSK Access, which ...

Drug Companies Brace for Changes in Medicare Part D

The federal government may gain the power to negotiate drug pricing with manufacturers on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries when the House votes on a new Democratic proposal next week. As Medicare Part D finds its footing in the pharmaceutical industry, drug companies are realizing that the government will continue to play ...

LymphaCare and Healthlight to Offer Discounts On Home Infrared Therapy Devices to Medicare Patients

Healthlight wants Medicare patients to have a high quality, yet inexpensive infrared therapy option now that Medicare has issued its National Coverage Determination (NCD) not covering these devices. Despite the countless patients who've seen results with Healthlight, Anodyne® Therapy and others, the Center for Medicare Services (CMS) has determined that ...

Medicare Part D Driving Changes in Where Seniors Shop

With well over 30 million seniors, age 65 and older, signing up for prescription insurance through Medicare Part D, the subsequent changes in shopping behaviors are significantly impacting what's in the shopping basket as well as where seniors are choosing to shop. While the plan has been touted as a ...

March 13th 2010
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Fake Prescriptions Still an Issue; Corey Haim Death Highlights Problem

With the recent untimely death of actor Cory Haim this week, the public is learning about an industry-wide problem that continues to plague the health insurance industry, fake prescriptions. Corey Ian Haim (December 23, 1971 – March 10, 2010) was a Canadian actor, best for his 1980s Hollywood career as ...
March 11th 2010
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Wins Big at 2010 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation earned two national awards for Excellence in Communications, one gold and one silver, in the 2010 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program. The awards, given by the Council on Foundations and the Communications Network, recognize important communication efforts that increase public awareness of ...
March 2nd 2010
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HealthPass Now Offering UnitedHealthcare’s Oxford Health Benefit Plans

HealthPass, a partnership between New York City, the New York Business Group on Health, and the health insurance industry, is now offering five of UnitedHealthcare's Oxford health insurance plans to employers. To qualify, the employers must have two to 50 eligible employees and be based in New York City or ...
March 2nd 2010
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Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Healthcare Solutions Let Hospitals and Clinics Streamline Communications and Access Critical Data

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and ATLANTA, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare organizations ranging from large city hospitals to rural community health clinics can count on Verizon Wireless to deliver customized wireless solutions that allow caregivers the ability to utilize resources that enhance the patient experience. Representatives from Verizon Wireless, operator of ...
March 2nd 2010
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Enanta Nominates EDP-239 as Lead Development Candidate for NS5A HCV Inhibitor Program

WATERTOWN, Mass., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today the nomination of lead development candidate, EDP-239, from its NS5A hepatitis C virus (HCV) inhibitor program. EDP-239 has demonstrated picomolar potency against multiple genotypes of the virus and a preclinical pharmacokinetic profile amenable to once-a-day dosing. "Our NS5A inhibitor program ...

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