Tag: Average Sales Prices
Prices, audits stay the course
April 23, 2012Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
BALTIMORE - Brand-name Brovana took a hit in the latest average sales price (ASP) figures for nebulizer medications, but otherwise there were few major changes.The long-acting beta agonist Brovana (J7605) decreased 24 cents to $5.11 per dose in the latest figures, released in March.Between the lower reimbursement and a price increase from the manufacturer, you won't see many providers supplying the drug, said Sam Jarczynski, who blames market consolidation for the change.“There are so few respiratory...
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 dispensed to the Medicare...