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01-13-2017, 06:07 AM
The generic EpiPen is already causing some insurance companies to drop the real one
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The introduction of a generic version of the life-saving — and expensive — EpiPen was heralded as a long overdue fix. But the move is **w causing some insurance companies to change how they approach coverage of the allergy tool.*
The insurer Cigna on Thursday said the company (http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/11/news/cigna-drops-mylan-epipen/) would ** longer cover the full-price EpiPen, which costs as much as $600. Those prices sparked outrage last summer (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/epipens-mylan-price-hike/) when customers with high-deductible healthcare plans were caught off guard by the high prices for a once-reasonable healthcare need. The pharmaceutical company Mylan bought the rights to the EpiPen in 2007 and systematically raised the allergy tool's prices over the following nine years.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/epipen-generic-cigna-cvs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The introduction of a generic version of the life-saving — and expensive — EpiPen was heralded as a long overdue fix. But the move is **w causing some insurance companies to change how they approach coverage of the allergy tool.*
The insurer Cigna on Thursday said the company (http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/11/news/cigna-drops-mylan-epipen/) would ** longer cover the full-price EpiPen, which costs as much as $600. Those prices sparked outrage last summer (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/epipens-mylan-price-hike/) when customers with high-deductible healthcare plans were caught off guard by the high prices for a once-reasonable healthcare need. The pharmaceutical company Mylan bought the rights to the EpiPen in 2007 and systematically raised the allergy tool's prices over the following nine years.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/epipen-generic-cigna-cvs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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