Price for top 10 generic drugs cut to 20% of brand price
The Government of Ontario has announced it will reduce the price it pays for the 10 top-selling generic drugs from 25 percent of their equivalent brand drug price to 20 percent of the equivalent brand price.
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Feb2014
The Government of Manitoba will add 179 new drugs to its Drug Benefits and Interchangeability Formulary on May 24, 2012, bringing the total number of drugs covered to more than 5,000. Many of the new drugs are generics which, within the context of Manitoba’s generic drug price policy, are expected ... Read More
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Feb2014
Last month Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger announced a new Home Cancer Drug Program to cover 100 percent of the costs of oral cancer medications taken outside of CancerCare Manitoba facilities. Prior to the announcement, only cancer medications administered in CancerCare Manitoba facilities were covered. More information on the new ... Read More
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Feb2014
Last week Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald announced that 120 new drugs would be added to the Manitoba Drug Benefits and Interchangeability Formulary. Among the additions are medicines for stroke prevention, skin cancer and hepatitis C. Full information on the formulary amendments, effective September 24, can be found ... Read More
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Feb2014
Last week members of the Saskatchewan legislature passed the budget tabled earlier last month, which included a change that would mean 97,000 seniors and 47,000 families pay more for their prescription drugs. The change is an increase in the co-payment cap for the Seniors’ and Children’s Drug Plan ... Read More
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Feb2014
Saskatchewan Drug Plan (SDP) beneficiaries who travel out of the province for extended periods of time may now be able to receive up-front reimbursement for their prescriptions. Previously, pharmacists were only able to bill for three months worth of prescription costs at a time. The new policy and ... Read More
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Feb2014
Last week the Government of British Columbia introduced Bill 35, the Pharmaceutical Services Act, to provide supporting legislation for the province’s $1 billion PharmaCare program. This Act will protect the program by law, whereas the program currently relies on government policy. The Act also outlines the framework within which the ... Read More
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Feb2014
Drug manufacturer submission deadlines for listing on the AHWDBL have been updated.
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Feb2014
As part of the Alberta Government’s 2013-2014 budget announced last week, a new generic drug pricing rule is effective in the province beginning today. Formerly priced at about 35 percent of the brand price, generic drugs will be 18 percent of the corresponding brand drug price for public ... Read More
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Feb2014
CDR Update — Issue 98:
The final CDR Update of 2013, Issue #98, provides updates on the following:
Submission queuing and CDEC Meeting Schedule:
CADTH has recently initiated the review of queued Common Drug Review (CDR) submissions on a first-come, first-served basis.
As the earliest targeted CDEC meeting date for the recently ... Read More