Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Rebate Programs are administered as part of the prescription drug affordability provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (the “IRA”), which is aimed at “lower[ing] out-of-pocket drug costs for people with Medicare and improv[ing] the sustainability of the Medicare program for current and future generations.” [1]

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

This first chart from the report summaries one of the top-line themes: how COVID-19 is re-shaping patients and therapeutics. Existing therapies for asthma and antibody tx for other diseases will be repurposed for COVID-19 therapeutics. Some people felt/feel isolated in the long COVID era of working/schooling from home.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

At the end of each year since I launched the Health Populi blog, I have put my best forecasting hat on to focus on the next year in health and health care. At this moment, the price of gas at the pump was playing a big role in U.S. There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills.

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