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  • Title: Prescription costs become harder to swallow. Providers and payers get a big dose of reality with explosive spending and patient demand for new drugs.
    Author: Hensley S.
    Journal: Mod Healthc; 1999 Aug 23; 29(34):30-4. PubMed ID: 10557476.
    Abstract:
    Hospitals and managed-care organizations know that pharmacy costs are going to keep climbing. It's a question of how much and how quickly they can slow the growth of an expense that has become increasingly hard to swallow. Spending on prescription drugs is rising at 12% per year, more than double the 5% increase in national healthcare expenditures.
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