DEVELOPING: Questions about Boniva, Tamiflu and the Medicare donut-hole discount
Friday, June 26th, 2009
by Leigh Ann Otte, managing editor
My Family Doctor has learned that Boniva and Tamiflu are no longer covered by the recently announced Medicare-discount agreement. Whether their manufacturer Roche Pharmaceuticals will instate its own discount is unclear.
On June 20, the powerful trade group Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America made big news, announcing their members would offer a 50-percent discount to most people in the dreaded Medicare Part D doughnut hole. But today, the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest reported Roche is leaving PhRMA.
My Family Doctor asked Roche whether they would still offer the discount. (more…)








