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Advertisement If a healthcare provider meets that standard they would be required to spend 98% of their revenues from a federal prescription drug program on direct patient care.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Yes, the median family’s income grew 140% over the last thirty years, but the cost of childcare grew more than 200%, prescription drugs about 175%, and higher education almost 400%.
—Jennifer Tescher, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Oz panned the Inflation Reduction Act, though details on his position about its Medicare prescription drug provisions are scant.
—Maya Goldman, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
The second measure would require certain health care providers to spend 98% of revenues from the discount prescription drug program on direct patient care.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1872, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of prescription drug was
in 1872
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“Prescription drug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prescription%20drug. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
Medical Definition
prescription drug
noun
: a drug that can be obtained only by means of a physician's prescription
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