Tag: Pulmicort
Providers threaten neb-med changes
October 28, 2010Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
BALTIMORE - As of Oct. 1, provider Sam Jarczynski no longer planned to dispense budesonide.
That's because the latest average sales price figures, released on Sept. 20, showed a drop for the nebulizer medication of 56 cents, from $4.85 to $4.29. That's on top of the previous drop: $1.57.
"We were breaking even on it, but now it's substantially lower than what our cost is on the drug," said Jarczynski, president of St. Petersburg, Fla.-based RxStat. "There's no way it can be...