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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy 

Bill of Health

The selections feature topics ranging from an analysis of government and industry investments for recently approved drugs, to a discussion of court decisions on mifepristone, and an examination of the added therapeutic benefit associated with the top-selling brand-name drugs in Medicare. JAMA Health Forum. 2023 Apr 7;4(4):e230511.

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California Enters Insulin Manufacturing: Can We Expect to See a California Effect?

Bill of Health

Increased access to drug pricing data can inform innovation policy decisions on exclusivities, competition, and access for the pharmaceutical industry in general. On August 7, 2022, the US Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act , which gives Medicare the power to negotiate prices of certain high-cost drugs.

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

Health Populi

health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. In the case of Medicare Part D, the drug benefit, Chandra said, “If you’re sick enough to fall into the donut hole, you may have higher mortality.”

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. Over one-half of Americans blame pharmaceutical companies as most responsible for the opioid crisis, followed by physicians, whom 39% of health consumers blame, and patients, whom 38% of people blame. Exacerbating U.S.

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Q/A: DocStation CEO Shares How AI Will Help Pharmacies Use the DIR Fee Changes to Their Advantage

HIT Consultant

Samm Anderegg, Co-Founder & CEO at DocStation Early next year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will remove the application of retroactive DIR fees and move DIR fees to the point of sale instead. What opportunities will AI offer the pharmaceutical industry to make further progress concerning PBMs and their DIR fees?

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Mitigating Serious Fall Risks and Associated Costs and Injuries with AI-Driven Motion Sensor Technology

HIT Consultant

can be attributed to falls, including approximately six percent of Medicare and eight percent of Medicaid expenditures. Fornari co-founded and was the CEO and medical director of Dominion Diagnostics, one of the country’s leading pharmaceutical monitoring laboratories and served there from 1997 to 2011.

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Pharmaceutical industry rips 'draconian' price negotiation provision

Fierce Healthcare

The Biden administration and federal regulators may be taking a victory lap following the unveiling of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS') price negotiations list, but major pl | Critics of President Joe Biden's policies to rein in prices for 10 Medicare Part D drugs believe the policy is "draconian" and will (..)