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DRUG COSTS

Specialty Definition: DRUG COSTS

Domain	Definition
Health	The amount that a health care institution or organization pays for its drugs. It is one component of the final price that is charged to the consumer (fees, pharmaceutical or prescription fees). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: DRUG COSTS

Domain	Title
Books	Health care reform : the time has come : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session : long-term care and prescription drug costs, Fort Smith, AR, February 10, 1992; skyrocketing health (reference) Prescription drug costs : a bitter pill to swallow : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests and the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, September 28, 1992, Loga (reference) Skyrocketing prescription drug costs : effects on senior citizens : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, Lewiston, ME, April 15, 1992 (reference) The effects of escalating drug costs on the elderly : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session : morning session, Macon, GA, April 22, 1992; afternoon session, Atlanta, GA, April 22, (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: DRUG COSTS

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Hospitals account for the major share of Sick Funds expenditures (46%), followed by primary care (19.3%) and medicines (16.5%). The Sick Funds are responsible for reimbursing retail pharmacies for the covered portion of drug costs. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Anagrams: DRUG COSTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-g-o-r-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: strouds.
	-3 letters: courts, crusts, custos, durocs, gourds, grouts, rousts, scours, scouts, scrods, stours, stroud, sudors, tussor.
	-4 letters: cords, costs, court, cross, cruds, crust, curds, curst, cusso, dross, drugs, ducts, duroc, duros, durst, dusts, gourd, gouts, gross, grots, grout, gusto, gusts, ousts, roust, routs, rusts, scots, scour, scout, scrod, scudo, scuds, scuts, sords, sorts.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-g-o-r-s-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: coastguards.
	+5 letters: coastguardsman, coastguardsmen.
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Alternative Orthography: DRUG COSTS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 52 55 47 43 4F 53 54 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010010 01010101 01000111 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010011 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#85 &#71 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0055 0047 0043 004F 0053 0054 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3852554123749535453

INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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