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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – February 25, 2022

Hall Render

CMS overhauls Direct Contracting model to include new requirements on governance, health equity in 2023. MaineHealth named one of America’s best large employers by Forbes magazine. Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan. Are They ‘Exploiting’ the Pandemic?

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The authors note that “consumer-driven” health care is, “associated with neoliberal efforts to emphasize market factors in health reform,” de-emphasizing government regulation and financing. This concept can be potentially harmful, they believe, assuming that health care is a traditional market.

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Rx 2018: A New Era of Specialty Drugs, Telehealth, Mobile Apps and Value, IQVIA Reports

Health Populi

President Trump made clear on the campaign trail and in his interview with TIME magazine as Person of the Year that pharmaceutical companies’ pricing needed to be reined in using government pressure.

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The United States of Diabetes: a $1,240 Tax on Every American

Health Populi

In typical markets, as products mature and get mass adoption, prices fall. But then prescription drug pricing doesn’t conform with how typical markets work in theory. Here’s a link to his interview with TIME magazine when he said, just days before taking his U.S. Presidential oath.

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The 2020 Health Populi TrendCast – HealthConsuming, TechLash, and Public Health Goes Private

Health Populi

The House passed its prescription drug bill earlier this month, named the Elijah E. The biggest known-unknown for 2020 is politics on the macro/national U.S. level, and then the tighter lens on health politics and health policy.

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

Health Populi

We imminently await President Trump’s and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar’s proposed plans to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, which is a “tri-partisan” issue with which Democrats, Independents, and Republicans all agree is due for increased Federal regulation.