Drug characteristics impacting rebates

What drug characteristics lead to higher vs. lower prices in the US? A paper by Beinfeld et al. (2025) finds the answer using data from SSR Health (about rebates) and Tufts Medical Center Specialty Drug Evidence and Coverage (SPEC) database (to inform drug characteristics. Among the 161 drugs in both SSR and SPEC data, the…

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El ICE puede estar en el hospital con un paciente bajo custodia. Pero los detenidos tienen derechos

En julio, agentes federales de inmigración llevaron a Milagro Solís-Portillo al Glendale Memorial Hospital, en las afueras de Los Ángeles, luego que sufriera una emergencia médica estando detenida. Nunca se fueron del hospital. Durante dos semanas, contratistas del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) hicieron guardia en el vestíbulo del hospital las 24…

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Once a Patient’s in Custody, ICE Can Be at Hospital Bedsides — But Detainees Have Rights

In July, federal immigration agents took Milagro Solis-Portillo to Glendale Memorial Hospital just outside Los Angeles after she suffered a medical emergency while being detained. They didn’t leave. For two weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractors sat guard in the hospital lobby 24 hours a day, working in shifts to monitor her movements, her attorney…

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