Supply Chain

The Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing on Tuesday launched a multimillion advertising campaign against high drug prices.

Here are eight articles published by Becker's Hospital Review this week highlighting a national yellow vaccine shortage, a new supply chain risk assessment tool and more.

Rebekah Gee, MD, Louisiana's health secretary, wants to use a federal patent law to access cheaper hepatitis C drugs, reports Kaiser Health News.

The rising price of common topical steroids, used to treat skin conditions like eczema, places a large financial burden on both Medicare and patients, according to a new study published in JAMA Dermatology.

Federal authorities from the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division raided generic drugmaker Perrigo's Allegan, Mich.-based headquarters as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged price-fixing, reports USA Today.

We recently surveyed more than 400 hospital staff, including nurses, physicians, service line leaders and supply chain administrators, to understand how the supply chain affected their day-to-day work. We learned that these colleagues shared some fundamental goals, but each held…

Clinicians often spend a large amount of time completing burdensome supply chain tasks in the hospital, which shifts their attention away from what matters most — the patients.

U.S. prescription drug spending could peak at $610 billion by 2021, according to a new report from QuintilesIMS Holding.

Physicians at teaching hospitals that restrict drug representative interactions prescribed fewer promoted brand name drugs than peers at hospitals without restrictions, according to a study published in JAMA.

Since labor and supplies are usually the two biggest cost drivers for hospitals and health systems — and layoffs are undesirable — supply chain is usually the first place administrators look to cut costs.