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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

At the end of this day, something Muna Bhanji, an advisor to biopharmaceutical developers who spent over 30 years of her career with Merck, noted: no advances toward value-based care will happen without a sense of partnership, requiring aligned incentives across the health/care ecosystem.

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Proposed Changes to Lower Drug Prices in Medicare Advantage and Part D

CMS.gov

Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed changes to Medicare Part D to lower prescription drug costs for beneficiaries. Part D uses private insurance plans to cover drugs that are picked up at a pharmacy. Insurance plans in the private market do not face the same constraint.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

health-tech startup MemoryWell pivots, eyes new funding to roll out software for insurers Department of Veterans Affairs health system kicks off multiyear Greater Washington expansion Georgetown to open Southeast D.C.