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Potential Medicare Part D Savings on Generic Drugs From the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company

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Authors: Hussain S. Lalani, MD, MPH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5972-3997, Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8867-2666, and Benjamin N. Rome, MD, MPH https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5776-3293Author, Article, & Disclosure Information
Publication: Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 175, Number 7
https://doi.org/10.7326/M22-0756
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cover image Annals of Internal Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 175 • Number 7 • July 2022
Pages: 1053 - 1055

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Published online: 21 June 2022
Published in issue: July 2022

Keywords

  1. Drug prices
  2. Drugs
  3. Medicare
  4. Pharmacoeconomics

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Hussain S. Lalani, MD, MPH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5972-3997
Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8867-2666
Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Benjamin N. Rome, MD, MPH https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5776-3293
Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Financial Support: By Arnold Ventures (Drs. Kesselheim and Rome).
Reproducible Research Statement: Study protocol: Available from Dr. Lalani (e-mail, [email protected]). Statistical code: Not applicable. Data set: Available at https://data.cms.gov/summary-statistics-on-use-and-payments/medicare-medicaid-spending-by-drug/medicare-part-d-spending-by-drug and https://costplusdrugs.com/medications/. This study was not submitted for institutional review board review because it used public, nonidentifiable data that does not constitute human subject research (45 CFR 46.102).
Corresponding Author: Hussain S. Lalani, MD, MPH, 1620 Tremont Street, Suite 3030, Boston, MA 02120; e-mail, [email protected].
Correction: This article was corrected on 8 July 2022 to reflect a revised analysis that corrected errors in matching on drug formulation and strength. Data in the text, table, and figure were updated.
This article was published at Annals.org on 21 June 2022.

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