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More Federal Action in the Pharmaceutical Sector as PBM Bill Advances in the Senate

Health Law Advisor

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the “HELP Committee” or the “Committee”) passed a bipartisan bill to expand federal regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”) for group health plans. [1] Unlike the IRA, which targeted the Medicare program, the provisions of S. 1339 the Committee passed last week.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

More savings would accrue through the quicker adoption of value-based payment models, the authors assert, where clinicians take on financial risk for managing population health. Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research.

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Health Provider News

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Ezequiel Molina targets expansion of Piedmont’s heart transplant system Grady Health System’s Cole Tatman set the tone for calm in Burn Unit Northside Hospital emergency specialist Trystan Drummond has ‘uncanny’ ability to solve problems, move forward Wellstar Health System to open center for $100M innovation fund in Atlanta Wellstar, Northeast Georgia (..)

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. health care delivery. CVS building out an SDOH platform , collaborating with Unite US for the effort.

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

Health Populi

In 2018, we saw more incentives to inspire adherence to prescription drug regimens, particularly in Medicare Part D along with increasing focus by pharmacists and providers. Just under 9% of patients across all three health plan types had over $500 in OOP costs in 2018.

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Support for Drug Price Negotiation Brings Partisans Together in the U.S.

Health Populi

Drug price negotiation, say by the Medicare program, is a unifying public policy in the current era of political schisms in America, based on the findings in a special Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll conducted in late September-early October 2021. appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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The State of the Union for Prescription Drug Prices

Health Populi

voters’ priorities, across political party – prescription drug prices. voters in 2020 quite like supporting Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, shown by the October 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. Few issues unite U.S.