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Greenville, S.C.-based Agfa Healthcare, a medical imaging company, signed a contract with the U.S. government worth nearly $768 million, according to Mass Device.

When placing blame for high drug costs, most fingers point to the pharmaceutical companies. However, Scott Gotlieb, MD, former deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, says the regulatory agency is also to blame for high generic drug costs,…

"Hospital supply chains are under increasing pressure to slash inventory levels and optimize labor in order to reduce costs. Gone are the days when they could rely on informal ordering processes to replenish inventory," says Robert Jones, director of logistics at Medline.

Some retailers are charging as much as $700 for a set of EpiPens, the brand name life-saving injectors filled with epinephrine to stop an anaphylactic reaction, according to The Baltimore Sun. While patients pay different amounts depending on their out-of-pocket…

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