'Generic drugs could've saved US $1bn in 1 year'

The use of branded combination medicines instead of generic ones added almost a billion dollars in just one year to the cost of the US federal insurance programme, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study said promoting generic substitution by educating doctors on prescribing habits and through rational substitution policies could offer substantial savings to the drug benefit programme.

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