{"id":4152,"date":"2010-10-26T12:57:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:45","slug":"dabigatran-to-cost-237-per-month-at-the-drugstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/10\/26\/dabigatran-to-cost-237-per-month-at-the-drugstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Dabigatran to Cost $237 per Month at the Drugstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Pradaxa (dabigatran) will cost about $237 a month at the drugstore counter. A Boehringer Ingelheim representative says the wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) of the drug is set at $6.75 per day for 2 pills. The price will apply to both the 150-mg and the 75-mg capsules. \u00a0According to knowledgeable experts, the retail cost of drugs at pharmacies is typically 17% over the WAC. The retail price of Pradaxa is therefore likely to be $7.90 per day, or $237 per month.<\/p>\n<p><em>Comments are closed on this post, but please join the conversation at our <a href=\"..\/fda-approves-dabigatran-for-stroke-prevention-in-atrial-fibrillation\/dabigatran-resource-round-up\/\">Dabigatran Resource Round-Up<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Pradaxa (dabigatran) will cost about $237 a month at the drugstore counter. A Boehringer Ingelheim representative says the wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) of the drug is set at $6.75 per day for 2 pills. The price will apply to both the 150-mg and the 75-mg capsules. \u00a0According to knowledgeable experts, the retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[495,13,7],"tags":[504,339,422,342,368],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anticoagulation-2","category-electrophysiology","category-prevention","tag-coumadin","tag-dabigatran","tag-pradaxa","tag-spaf","tag-warfarin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}