Cost effectiveness assessments should be more widely used as a way to wrangle rising drug prices, the author of a recent opinion piece published in The Inquirer writes.
Using cost effectiveness is one solution that could help cut drug prices without creating conflict with the pharmaceutical industry.
“At a time when much of the country recognizes the importance of reducing out-of-control drug costs, the industry might find this to be the most acceptable way to achieve that end,” the author, pediatric cardiologist Arthur Garson Jr., writes.
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