Medicare reverses billing change on Genentech drug

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 10/28/2009 - 12:52

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare officials are backing off a policy that pushed many doctors to use a $2,000 injectable drug for a potentially blinding eye disorder, over a similar treatment that costs about $50....


 

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