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The obscure drug with a growing Medicare tab  

August 5, 2014

Experts question the effectiveness of HP Acthar Gel, a drug made from pigs’ pituitary glands. Yet it cost US Medicare more than $141 million in 2012, up from $7 million in 2008

 

Charles Ornstein (ProPublica)

 

This story was co-published with The New York Times\' The Upshot.

 

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