Kaiser Health News is releasing years of Purdue Pharma's internal budget documents to offer insight into the hundreds of millions of dollars spent to launch and promote OxyContin.
As the nations bill for drug and genetic tests has climbed to an estimated $8.5 billion a year, theres mounting suspicion among health insurers that some testing may do more to boost profit margins than help treat patients.
Spending on urine screens and related genetic tests quadrupled from 2011 to 2014 to an estimated $8.5 billion a year more than the entire budget of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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