Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

The good news about prescription drugs, in the context of medical spending in the U.S., But there’s bad news about prescription drugs in the context of medical spending in America. This turbocharged a viable market for generic drugs in the U.S., is that 9 in 10 medicines prescribed are generics.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By Dom Kelly There’s a lot to say about the nonprofit sector and how it so often burns out, underpays, and devalues the humans who do the labor. There’s a pervasive narrative that this should just be accepted as a cost of doing good in the world. Disability organizations are no exception to this.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires that pharmaceutical manufacturers give discounts on specified outpatient drugs to certain covered entities who typically serve low-income or otherwise underserved patients, including hospitals and clinics. increase in hospital prices and offset by a 15.4% billion, reaching $6.3

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Bill of Health

MARCH 25, 2022

Experts’ Views on FDA Regulatory Standards for Drug and High-Risk Medical Devices: Implications for Patient Care. A New Way to Contain Unaffordable Medication Costs – Exercising the Government’s Existing Rights. New EU regulation on health technology assessment of cancer medicines. 2022 Feb 24. PMID: 35201276.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Still, that hasn’t stopped game-changers like Cuban’s patient-friendly Cost Plus Drug Company from breaking ground. Innovative companies are springing up with new cost models and new technology – like devices to monitor patient behavior and artificial intelligence to deliver insights from that data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Changes are afoot in the way insurers and governments pay for the drugs and treatments patients need-and a big part of that change includes a move towards value-based contracting, with prices set based on the outcome of treatments. The following is a guest article by Girisha Fernando, Founder and CEO at Lyfegen.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

Paul Ketchel, CEO of MDsave Over two years have passed since the hospital price transparency rule was enacted. Unfortunately, America still struggles with high, painfully opaque pricing across healthcare that hurts employers, workers, patients, and taxpayers. At the same time, 100 million Americans find themselves in healthcare debt.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

For more than 15 years, the country has been served by only one e-prescribing network, Surescripts (which this week appointed Frank Harvey as its new chief executive following the retirement of CEO Tom Skelton.). How does your e-prescribing network work? They then have to call their doctor to discuss more affordable options.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

“Inflation is the big story,” the economics team at Morning Consult told us yesterday in a call on “How to Think Like An Economist.” An hour after the Morning Consult session, I brainstormed the topic of consumers-as-payers of medical bills and prescription drugs with GoodRx strategy leaders. in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Currently, some 22 states have enacted prescription drug transparency laws that require entities across the drug supply chain to report pricing information to state officials. This trend is also confirmed by a 2021 GoodRx survey around medication adherence and drug cost, which shows that 18.7%

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

What You Should Know: – As the world prepares for the Inflation Reduction Act’s landmark policy changes, healthcare stakeholders realize that its wide-ranging effects will require new approaches to drug pricing, health plan design, and investment. Stakeholders can best influence these policies before drafts are published.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. ” Here’s how GNC gets to the $400 in benefits. for one year’s membership.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 24, 2023

.” These two programs come from outside of the legacy health care system of so-called incumbents — hospitals, health systems, health insurance — leveraging two brand-names beloved to many consumers for convenience, price transparency, and sheer cost. First, check out Amazon Pharmacy’s RxPass.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The costs for drug discovery and development are skyrocketing, but AI (artificial intelligence) is introducing new efficiencies to help find effective treatments faster. AI can speed up the processes of collecting and accessing information to drastically shorten drug development time to keep the price of drug development in check.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

At any given time, 300 or more drugs bloat the FDA’s shortage list. Many of these medicines, including life-saving cancer drugs , don’t get to the patients who need them. Drug shortages have a variety of causes, including contamination at pharmaceutical plants, major storms, supply chain issues, or runs on important vaccines.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

With growing global supply and competition, we can expect prices for COVID-19 vaccines to fall, anticipating additional volumes from Sinopharm, Moderna, Sinovac, Gamaleya Institute, among others. We also expect innovation to come out of pharma and biotech labs, and who will pay for new-new therapies?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category. Outpatient spending comprised just over $1 in $4 per capita, followed by prescription drugs which were allocated over $1 of every $5.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

“They say things like ‘We don’t treat drug addicts.’” “We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors , a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. The 2022 revisions are “a dramatic change,” he said.

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Natalia Mazina

APRIL 25, 2023

Recognizing their importance and to help them face escalating drug prices, Congress created the 340B Drug Pricing Program back in 1992. On one hand, the program is challenged by drug manufacturers, who argue that the program is being abused by 340B covered entities. Sanofi Aventis U.S. United States HHS (3d Cir.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2023

But there’s good news. According to our own research and data, there is roughly $58 billion in available patient funding, including drug manufacturer copay assistance, foundation grants, government plans, free drug programs, and living expense support. This manifests in many ways when it comes to patients’ financial experiences.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. The excitement around new tools took hold of all industries in 2023, and the potential is expansive. Jane Reed, Director of Life Sciences at Linguamatics, an IQVIA company Pharmaceutical developers have always prioritized drug safety.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Price transparency is vital for making informed healthcare decisions, so enforcement of transparency-related policies will continue to increase. Further, as artificial intelligence (AI) takes center stage, new regulations may be needed to disclose the nature and source of care dispensed.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

With consumer and prescriber interest in GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs “soaring,” health plan managers have a new source of financial stress and clinical questions on their to-do list. “The price rivals a mortgage payment,” Dr. Adam Wolfberg, Virta’s Chief Medical Officer, emphasized on the webcast.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

How would that further impact the micro-economy of health care? Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs). health economy. In the U.S., That was 2.7

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MedTrainer

MAY 9, 2024

While the field of healthcare compliance is filled with exceptional individuals, there are a handful who I rely on to provide insight, news, and trends. Ideas To Find Other Chief Compliance Officers To Follow I know how busy you are and that you probably prioritize your organization’s needs over yours.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” ” "In the year ahead, the industry will work to determine which virtual visits make the most sense, and where and how they should take place."

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As patients take on greater health cost financial risk — morphing people into health consumers and medical payors — more people are trying to comparison “shop” for care, both services and supplies (the latter focused on the patient-facing price of prescription drugs). appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2023

How much are you willing to spend to save your brain? The direct and indirect costs of care for AD are monumental, from treatment and medical equipment to home safety modifications, prescription drugs and care supplies. Imagine if we could solve this problem; what it would mean for you, and what would it mean for society as a whole?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Weisberg to discuss what telehealth cannot do to cure the therapist shortage, how virtual reality works in mental healthcare, why she believes VR is the goldilocks answer to the staffing problem, and how virtual reality can give access to alternatives to pharmacological treatments like opioids.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The cloud-based EHR vendor’s v12 release is coming soon, and at this year’s user conference CEO Girish Navani announced multiple new eCW features that had the audience gasping with excitement. While attending the eCW user conference, John also reflected on how poor EHR usability can have an adverse effect on patient safety.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2024

Given the ever-evolving threat landscape, our experts had no shortage of cybersecurity predictions for the new year. Drug prices may also be in the crosshairs in 2024, for uses ranging from cancer treatment to weight loss. Read more… Amazon’s New Prime Benefit Is a Wake-Up Call for Traditional Health Systems.

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Jane Sarashon

JUNE 5, 2023

Starting 2nd June, there have been dozens of positive announcements updating research and therapies bringing hope to the 2 million new patients who will be diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. I’ve pulled out three lenses on patient trends that are helpful in the context of the ASCO ’23 news, keeping the patient-as-consumer in mind.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2019

As patients now assume the role of health consumer, they rationally expect retail-level experiences with greater first-dollar payment for health insurance, health care services and medical products like prescription drugs. Every publicly traded market segment Amazon has touched has had moments of shattering stock prices.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

“They say things like ‘We don’t treat drug addicts.’” “We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors , a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. The 2022 revisions are “a dramatic change,” he said.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

On April 29, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), issued the final rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Final Rule”). With a few exceptions, the Final Rule is a wholesale codification of the proposed rule.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We recently spoke with Nardiner to discuss how clinical executives can address the hesitation to embrace AI and implement it in a way that is met with minimal resistance from staff. How did the patient sleep, did they eat, how are they moving, etc? Also, they map to general intuitions of “ intelligence.”

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