Study finds generic options offer limited savings for expensive drugs

MyVUMC PhotoGeneric drug options did not reduce prices paid for the cancer therapy imatinib (Gleevec), according to a Health Affairs study released this week.
After nearly two years of generic competition the price for a month of treatment dropped by only 10 percent, according to authors from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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