Guidelines on approved medications. On further illustration of this slide on slide 1, the agents where doxopene hydro chloride would be moving from tier 1 to tier 3 where the cros cross crotozome. These are examples and commissioner scott i heard your request. And we will get back to you. Thank you. Moving on to slide 8. So based on the utilization of hss in calendar year 2017 for the impacted prescriptions on the very left there, would be 117hmo members would be impacted. During calendar year 2017, 27,000hss members had prescriptions filled. So of those 27,000 members, 117 members would be impacted. Which represents 0. 4 or in other words, less than half of 1 of membership. In the middle graph there, there were over 400 prescriptions filled and the impact was 675. So the percentage was at 0. 2 . And moving over to the right during calendar year 2017 there were 1700 different drugs that were had prescriptions filled by sfhss medicals and 15 drugs were impacted and were being taken by h
Antidiabetic agents, the generic version called extended relief. That had an average cost for hss of over 700 per 30day supply. Another version of that same medication cost over 4,000 per prescription. And then the brand version of that medication, called gl lumetzglumetza cost 6,500. If you look at the medication by population that only cost 7 per prescription. So we really want to drivualization towardif lent medication but at a lower cost. Weve had these discussions in the past over drugs and many times the members would say that i guess there are different binders and many have different drugs. They claim they are the same but they are not, i guess. We are just following the fda guidelines on approved medications. On further illustration of this slide on slide 1, the agents where doxopene hydro chloride would be moving from tier 1 to tier 3 where the cros cross crotozome. These are examples and commissioner scott i heard your request. And we will get back to you. Thank you. Moving
Did not survive his injuries. Even before we knew this would be a homicide investigation, the shooting rattled people in this area, shutting down the metro and drawing a crowd. Outside the westfield mall, shoppers stared across the street into a homicide crime scene on the second floor of a metro parking garage. Kind of looked like maybe a robbery going easy and somebody thought they could get away with it. Reporter the first report of a shooting came around 7 15. Officers from Montgomery County and metro police swarmed the parking garage. The victim was rushed by ambulance to a nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead not long after arriving. [ sirens ] reporter Montgomery County Police Detained two men, first calling them persons of interest. Then declining to label them at all, saying only that there was no more threat to people who live in the area. I would say they should not be concerned at this point in time. Reporter the shooting just outside the busy mall and metro stop forced
Entire island of puerto rico is still without power. So puerto rico is in very, very tough shape. Their electrical grid is destroyed and it wasnt in good shape to start off with. President trump is promising puerto rico federal funding to help with recovery as the Prime Minister of dominica the caribbean island made an emotional plea for help. If anybody is listening to me Helicopter Services is critical to get the supplies to people. The Damage Assessment is continuing but the Prime Minister says the situation there is dire. There is no electricity and some villages are only accessible by boat or helicopter. And as you can imagine authorities across the caribbean say that rebuilding first from Hurricane Irma and now maria will take months if not longer. And President Trump says that in addition to government aid he will personally visit puerto rico. Im Elizabeth Herr channel 6 action news. Now cecily tynan is live at the big board with the latest on the track of maria. Hi rick, maria
We all know it. Those who support obama care and those that oppose it. Something has to be done. We have looked for something to replace it with something else. And have not found it yet. He calls this advancements a great victory. So what happens next. This vote sets up days of debates and then more votes on possibly repealing and replacing obama care. Whatever the senate agrees to do still requires a vote in the house. A long road but the white house declaring a victory this afternoon. As you mentioned, President Trump took a handful of questions in the rose garden a moments ago and began by applauding republican senators for their vote today. We will all sit together and come up with something spectacular. We have a lot of options and a lot of great options. The senators went out there and you have a block of 48 votes against you, no matter how good it sounds its hard to get the kind of numbers we got. President trump was also asked about his recent and point the criticismive attorn