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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

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That’s a summary of the demand side of the trends on the health economy which serve up huge challenges for legacy health care stakeholders: hospitals and health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and medical tech companies, and clinicians. health care?

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Prescription Drug Costs In America Through the Patient Lens, via IQVIA, GoodRx and a New $2 Million Therapy

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Total patient OOP costs in 2018 reached $61 billion, up $2 bn from 2017, and $5 bn from 2014. Just under 9% of patients across all three health plan types had over $500 in OOP costs in 2018. We agreed — prescription drug pricing, from the patient’s point of view, is complicated, indeed.

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Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.

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2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. ” That’s because being health-insured is a social determinant of health. National Health Expenditures.