Oct 1 2010
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog: Insurers want to know why biologic drugs are so expensive. "UnitedHealth Group's Prescription Solutions unit hosted a roundtable this morning in midtown Manhattan focusing on a topic that's hot right now: the rocketing growth of spending on biologic drugs.
This type of drug can cost as much as $1.5 million annually, according to Prescription Solutions CEO Jackie Kosecoff. Their success can be dramatic, sending diseases into remission that just years ago were terminal, but are also extremely difficult for patients and payers to afford…" (Johnson, 9/29).
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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