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Specialty drugs, biologics have side effects for employers – soaring costs
Canadian HR Reporter (May 2011)
Employers are facing some tough realities and tough decisions when it comes to health benefit plans because of a rising tide of very expensive, non-traditional or specialty drug therapies. View post
Why Generic Drug Pricing Legislation is Not Enough
May 2011
Breakfast Benefits Club, Barrie
Realizing Savings within Your Existing Benefit Plans
May 2011
Council of Ontario Senior Business Officials Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake
March/April 2011 – Benefits Intelligence: The need for data-mining in benefit plans
May 2011
IN THIS ISSUE...Breakthrough in Multiple Sclerosis treatment...NOC Watch: Vimovo, Revolade...FEATURE: Benefits Intelligence: The need for data-mining in benefit plans...Highlights from Cubic Health's February presentations View post
January/February 2011 – The Promise of 2011
May 2011
IN THIS ISSUE...Update of the CADTH Biologics Review in Rheumatoid Arthritis...The link between autism and vaccines...NOC Watch: Vitaros, Daxas...What can the VA system teach Canadian plan sponsors? View post
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N.S. tightens rules on OxyContin -Globe and Mail (February 20, 2012) - Provinces become proactive after being accused of inaction in the face of rising addiction rates - Nova Scotia has become the latest... View post
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Another Blockbuster Falls: Generic Plavix® Now Available - February 2012 - After over 8 years of patent challenges between the Canadian generic manufacturing company Apotex and the product’s innovator, sanofi-aventis, clopidogrel (generic for... View post
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Protecting Your Plan from the Gravy Train - February 2012 - Although full-product direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) is illegal in Canada, most Canadians are exposed to this type of advertising through media spillage from... View post
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Many Canadians can’t afford to take drugs as directed -Globe and Mail (January 17, 2012) - One in four Canadians who do not have drug insurance are unable to afford to take their prescription drugs as directed, a... View post
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Look ahead with predictive modelling -Benefits Canada (January 2012) - The most recent 24 months of data is one of the most important pieces of information that plan sponsors and advisors have... Download PDF
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Drug Plans Erode Over Last 20 Years -Benefits and Pensions monitor (December 2011) - All of us involved in the provision and management of drug plan benefits should be embarassed by the lack of progress over... Download PDF
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Are we in 2002 or 2012? A word of caution about mail-order pharmacies -Benefits Canada (November 2011) - If a plan design does not support mail order (or any other preferred pharmacy arrangement) in a meaningful way, it will be... Download PDF
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