cost-effective
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In a study published in the Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy, Sujith Ramachandran, associate professor of pharmacy administration, explained that a treatment can be cost-effective without being cost-saving for insurers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Huawei revamped the design for its latest Ascend 950 chip, making it more cost-effective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“We’re shipping quickly across a wide range of models while keeping them highly cost-effective for customers,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Morgan said sightings submitted by the public were "a really valuable, wide-scale and cost-effective form of citizen science".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
But a PIH doctor spoke up, saying that he had signed the Hippocratic Oath to practice medicine ethically, but he didn’t remember signing an oath to do it in a cost-effective way.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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