HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Prescryptive Health , a health tech company empowering consumers with prescription drug pricing data, has acquired Northwest Pharmacy Services Inc, a full-service, non-profit Pharmacy Benefit Manager. NWPS serves over 44,000 members in the Pacific Northwest.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This innovative approach will establish a transparent formula for drug cost and reimbursement, moving away from the traditional complex and opaque pricing structure.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 7, 2022

New Reforms to Prescription Drug Pricing in the US: Opportunities and Challenges. Reforming Patient Cost Sharing for Cancer Medications in Medicare Part D. JAMA Oncol. 2022 Aug 4. Epub ahead of print. Hwang TJ, Kesselheim AS, Rome BN. 2022 Aug 19. Epub ahead of print. Lumpkin MM, Hamburg MA, Schultz WB, Sharfstein JM.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2023

Real-time Prescription Benefit High prescription drug prices create affordability challenges for patients and the health care system as a whole.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2023

OptumRx launched Price Edge, a tool that compares pricing for traditional generic drugs to ensure members get the lowest prescription drug prices. It's a new year, and healthcare technology vendors are rolling out their latest innovations, market approvals, acquisitions and staffing shake-ups.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2021

health citizens support attacking COVID-19 through testing, federal support for vaccines, expanding telehealth, expanding the ACA, and reforming (lowering) prescription drug prices. Ultimately, U.S. For the details, check out the post on the Medecision site.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

In the underlying Seventh Circuit cases, relators alleged that retail pharmacies had knowingly submitted false reports of their Usual and Customary (“U&C”) drug prices to the government for reimbursement under Medicare Part D and Medicaid, because the reports allegedly did not account for discounted drug prices offered through certain prescription (..)

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

"With prescription drug prices rising at every turn, patients need price transparency and the ability to discuss options with their doctors during office visits," Davis advised. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GoodRx is a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of a telemedicine platform that includes a free-to-use website and mobile app that consumers can use to track prescription drug prices and obtain coupons that provide discounts on medications. The platform can also be used to arrange telehealth visits and access other health services.

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 7, 2023

However, CMS’s release of the Initial Rebate Guidances represents the agency’s first significant opportunity to submit substantive and specific input from the broader stakeholder community with regard to one of the most significant components of the prescription drug pricing changes of the IRA.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Entering 2024, we should be mindful that patients have been morphing into consumers, facing greater out-of-pocket costs and growing demand for omnichannel living and convenience, voting with their feet and clicks for, say, online appointments and access to health care which Zocdoc has pioneered for 16+ years.

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Health Care Law Brief

JANUARY 19, 2022

On December 31, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark legislation to increase the transparency of prescription drug pricing and to establish requirements on pharmacy middlemen.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 24, 2023

Take Optum, which this week launched the Price Edge tool to help steer patients to the “lowest price generic medicines” according to the program’s press release. The price-comparison tool exclusively focused on generic drugs will be available to Optum Rx members.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

middle-class households finding that health care has returned to the #1 household fiscal concern ahead of inflation in 2023.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This latter point was emphasized in the survey noting that 71% of Americans said that drug prices were too high; 78% of people agreed that the government should be permitted to negotiate/regulate prescription drug prices.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

“We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors , a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. “But the federal crackdowns and guidelines have created collateral damage: patients left high and dry.”

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Designed to shed light on the true cost of drugs and to ensure that consumers and insurers aren’t being gouged, drug pricing transparency laws seek to level the playing field by delivering greater visibility into drug costs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

When asked what factors contribute to rising health care costs in America, most consumers cite the cost of prescription drugs. Taken together, these two data points demonstrate the potent political import of prescription drug prices as the U.S. approaches the 2020 Presidential election.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The XY supply demand curve shown above from Trilliant’s analysis illustrates a government price ceiling shock to health care pricing.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

“We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors , a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. “But the federal crackdowns and guidelines have created collateral damage: patients left high and dry.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

This data point gives further impetus to prescription drug price hearings in Congress and various proposals promulgated on Capitol Hill to address the cost of medicines. ” Cost continues to be top-of-mind for healthcare consumers, who largely blame pharma first in the Edelman research.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

The top four health care issues consumers want Congress to prioritize in 2019 all deal with health care costs and access , for large majorities across political party ID: to lower prescription drug prices, to make sure insurers provide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, to ensure Medicare benefits aren’t cut, and to lower the overall (..)

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

What You Should Know: Waltz Health, a digital health company developing smarter, technology-enabled ways to price, distribute and prescribe medications, today announced its entry into the Medicare market.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 21, 2022

Anyone with a December 2021 LG TV or newer can access affordable medications via the Capital Rx Advantage prescription savings card, downloaded directly from the comfort of their own homes via the Independa Health Hub (automatically on all LGTVs. It beats other popular discount cards on prices 80% of the time.

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 26, 2023

Over the past several months, the FTC followed through with its policy statement, bringing, and publicly settling, cases against prescription drug price tracking app GoodRx , online counseling service BetterHelp , and, most recently, ovulation tracking app Premom. Commissioner Phillips has since resigned.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

All rebate payments will be deposited into the Medicare Prescription Drug Account in the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.

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Hall Render

JULY 22, 2022

Rising prescription drug prices contributed to 49% jump in Oregon healthcare costs over 6-year period: report. . ‘This is unprecedented’: Many Pacific Northwest hospitals at capacity as they struggle with staffing. Oregon ICU beds dwindle, hospitals near capacity amid staffing shortages. PENNSYLVANIA.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan. Northern Michigan health director quits, cites anger over mask mandates. Michigan aims to improve maternal and infant health. Michigan health care leaders discuss behavioral health reform solutions. McLaren is moving east.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

New president tapped to lead major hospital system in Denver area New president to lead opening of $650M hospital in Wheat Ridge Telehealth program offers support to forensic nurses Colorado Medicaid program settles lawsuit over lack of mental health care for children Colorado is trying to cut prescription drug prices.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Bill on prescription drug pricing inspires support from Maine residents, opposition from pharmaceutical industry. LDH: Over 1300 COVID-19 patients in the hospital across Louisiana. top medical official doesn’t expect a COVID surge after Mardi Gras. 64M VA health clinic opens in Portland.

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CMS.gov

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Under the leadership of President Trump, CMS is committed to lowering prescription drug prices for all Americans. A key component of our strategy is strengthening competition among generic and biosimilar medicines.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The decline of the pharma industry reputation is an important reality-check here given that even Republican voters have been keen to see greater regulation of prescription drug pricing in recent health tracking polls.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

As such, the debate on prescription drug pricing in the U.S. is heating up, with President Biden mentioning the scenario of Medicare negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical manufacturers in his latest speech measuring progress at 100 days in the White House.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

We agreed — prescription drug pricing, from the patient’s point of view, is complicated, indeed. ” The politics of prescription drug pricing will continue to be personal for health care voters, I forecast in my own scenarios looking toward not 2023 — but 2020.

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