Blogs
Pricing
- An Overview of Pricing (frisse). Summarizes commonly used terms
- Follow the Pill: Understanding the U.S. Commercial Pharmaceutical Supply Chain. Health Strategies Consultancy for the Kaiser Family Foundation (March, 2005)
- Florida Senate: Review of Medicaid Prescription Drug Pricing: Interim Project Report 2005-141, November 2004.(pdf) This article reviews Florida's pharmacy reimbursement mechanism and changes made to the methodology during the 2004 legislative session.
- Dispensing
Costs.
State Pharmacy Comparison Sites
- Florida - myFloridaRx.com
(Rx)
- Maryland Price Compare (Rx)
- Missouri Price Compare (Rx)
- New York Price Comparisons (Rx)
Federal Reports
- CMS
e-Prescribing Reports
Executive orders and legislation pertaining to impact
analyses - EO 13258 (amended EO 13258 - which primarily just reassigned duties and roles from the Vice President to others)
- EO 13132 (addresses federalism issues)
- Brookings Institute Review of 13258 (March, 2003)Regulatory Flexibility Act
- Section 1102(b) of the Social Security Act (impact on small hospitals)
- Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (public law 104-4)
- Final Rules for e-prescribing (Federal Register, Nov 7, 2005)
- Stark-Safe harbor
- Follow
this link to the 33-page PDF document from the August 8 Federal Register
- Follow
this link to the 29-page OIG document from the august 8 Federal Register
- Follow
this link to the PDF pages requesting comment from the August 9 Federal
Register
- Follow this link to a Ropes & Gray Summary on these issues
EO 12866 (Federal Register, October 4, 1993, Regulatory planning and review) - html
NCVHS Links
- 2-Sept-2004 Report to Secretary Thompson on e-prescribing
- 13-August-2004 E-Prescribing work plan
- 4-March-2005 Report to Secretary Leavitt on electronic signatures
- 7-Dec-2005-e-prescribing recommendations
- 7-Dec-2005-Prior-Authorization Workflow Task Force (ppt presentation)
- 7-Dec-2005-Industry SIG presentation (ppt)
- 13-Sept-2006-Allergy recomendations
Other Resources
- Congressional Budget Office January 2007 Report on Medicare Prescription Drug Pricing (PDF)
- AHRQ Clinical Economics Resource
- OMB Regulatory Decisions: 2003 Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local and Tribal Entities
Private-Sector Reports