{"id":1340,"date":"2011-03-26T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beachesobgyn.com.67-210-105-90.itstimewedonate.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-03-26T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T16:30:59","slug":"ob-gyns-respond-high-cost-makena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/ob-gyns-respond-high-cost-makena\/","title":{"rendered":"OBGYNs Respond to High Cost of Makena\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Washington, DC<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College), along with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, is urging Ther-Rx Corporation to reconsider its pricing of Makena\u2122. Makena is the first FDA-approved medication to help prevent preterm birth in certain high-risk pregnant women. The College argues that the extremely high cost of Makena\u2122 will hinder access and affordability to this treatment for both insured and uninsured patients.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full letter, go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acog.org\/from_home\/misc\/20110311GoedekeLtr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.acog.org\/from_home\/misc\/20110311GoedekeLtr.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC\u00a0\u2014 The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College), along with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, is urging Ther-Rx Corporation to reconsider its pricing of Makena\u2122. Makena is the first FDA-approved medication to help prevent preterm birth in certain high-risk pregnant women. The College argues that the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toplinemd.com\/beaches-obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}