{"id":28527,"date":"2019-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/06\/retail-prescription-drug-prices-fall-for-first-time-in-45-years\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:10:06","slug":"retail-prescription-drug-prices-fall-for-first-time-in-45-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/06\/retail-prescription-drug-prices-fall-for-first-time-in-45-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail Prescription Drug Prices Fall for First Time in 45 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Decrease due to drops in generic drug prices and slow growth in the cost of brand-name medications<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Retail prescription drug prices in the United States fell by 1 percent last year, a new government report shows.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the overall decrease was due to drops in generic drug prices and slow growth in the cost of brand-name medications, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first such decline in 45 years, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services experts. The last one was a 0.2 percent decrease in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Only retail pharmacy prescriptions had an overall price drop, not medications given in hospitals or doctor&#8217;s offices, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/27e3f43606e998aa069c72f28eaeb801\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decrease due to drops in generic drug prices and slow growth in the cost of brand-name medications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-28527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}