EpiPen price hikes add millions to Pentagon costs | Reuters
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Defense spending on the injectors at retail pharmacies - which accounted for 53,500 of 226,000 EpiPen prescriptions for the last fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 - has grown more than tenfold, to $28 million from $2.4 million in 2008.
While EpiPen spending represents a fraction of a percent of the Defense Department’s $49 billion annual healthcare budget, the data illustrates the premium it was paying for EpiPens at retail outlets.
“Lawmakers would not be terribly happy to hear that DoD is paying more at retail,” said Brian Bruen, a drug economics researcher at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.