Prescription Drugs Archives - Wisconsin Health News

State could provide $100 million in tax credits to support Eli Lilly expansion

by Sean Kirkby | Aug 6, 2025 | Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

Gov. Tony Evers’ administration said Tuesday that the state could provide up to $100 million in tax credits to support Eli Lilly and Company’s growth in southeast Wisconsin, contingent on the drugmaker meeting job creation and capital investment targets.

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Wisconsin to see money through Gilead agreement

by Sean Kirkby | Jul 29, 2025 | Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

Wisconsin is expected to receive about $152,000 through a multistate settlement with Gilead Sciences to resolve allegations the company ran an illegal kickback scheme to promote its HIV medications.

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Bill would require providers to continue checking prescription drug monitoring program

by Sean Kirkby | Mar 10, 2025 | Legislature, Opioids, Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

Healthcare providers would have to continue checking patient records in a state program before writing a prescription for a controlled substance for the next five years, under a bill advanced last week by a Senate committee.

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Felzkowski brings back PBM bill

by Sean Kirkby | Mar 5, 2025 | Legislature, Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

Senate President Mary Felzkowski, R-Tomahawk, is bringing back sweeping legislation aimed at reigning in pharmacy benefit managers that failed to pass last legislative session.

Network Health Plan partners with Mark Cuban’s cost-cutting drug company

by Sean Kirkby | Feb 28, 2025 | Insurance, On The Record, Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

Network Health Plan’s Medicare Advantage plan is one of the first in the country to align with an effort by businessman Mark Cuban to cut drug costs.

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Baldwin introduces drug importation bill

by Sean Kirkby | Feb 25, 2025 | Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., is part of a bipartisan coalition that introduced legislation that aims to allow people to safely import prescription drugs from Canada.

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Kaul urges further action on counterfeit weight-loss drugs

by Sean Kirkby | Feb 25, 2025 | Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is urging federal regulators to take further action on counterfeit weight-loss and diabetes drugs.

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Baldwin calls for price disclosures in drug ads

by Sean Kirkby | Feb 3, 2025 | Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., joined a bipartisan effort to require price disclosures on drug ads.

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Legislative Democrats target drug prices in initial priorities

by Sean Kirkby | Jan 21, 2025 | Legislature, Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

Legislative Democrats released a bill last week that targets high prescription drug prices.

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State employee health plan board signs off on PBM, Medicare contracts

by Sean Kirkby | Jan 16, 2025 | Insurance, Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

The board overseeing the health plan for state and some local employees signed off on extending relationships with its current pharmacy benefit manager and Medicare Advantage plan.

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Madison-based Nimble Therapeutics acquired

by Sean Kirkby | Dec 16, 2024 | Health Tech, Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

AbbVie, a drug company headquartered in North Chicago, Ill., will pay $200 million to acquire Madison-based Nimble Therapeutics.

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CivicaScript plans to roll out more drug products early next year

by Sean Kirkby | Dec 6, 2024 | On The Record, Prescription Drugs, Top Stories | 0 |

CivicaScript, a Utah-based company that is working to expand access to affordable generic medicines for consumers, recently named Brent Eberle, chief pharmacy officer at Madison-based Navitus Health Solutions, as one of its leaders.