Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

New president tapped to lead major hospital system in Denver area New president to lead opening of $650M hospital in Wheat Ridge Telehealth program offers support to forensic nurses Colorado Medicaid program settles lawsuit over lack of mental health care for children Colorado is trying to cut prescription drug prices.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pricing failure, with waste ranging $231 bn – $241 bn. Fraud and abuse, waste between $59 bn and $84 bn; and, Administrative complexity, wasting about $266 bn each year. Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research.

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Hall Render

JUNE 23, 2023

What about telehealth? voters could clamp down on pay for hospital executives California health system uses philanthropists’ gifts to launch innovation fund Probe into California hospital unearths patient safety concerns Wrong family notified after man dies at SF hospital California Gov.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Physician leaders balk at Medicare 4.48% physician fee cut. Bright Health exiting Florida Medicare Advantage market. Metro hospitals concerned about winter ‘triple threat’ of pediatric illnesses. in prescription drug pricing case. The Revolution That May Finally Disrupt Traditional Healthcare.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The 55 hospitals penalized by Medicare 8 years straight over patient complications. Medicare penalizes 40 hospitals in Florida for patient safety. Ige responds to KITV4 about when Hawaii will lift its mask mandate. Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan. FEMA issues $1.5M

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Hall Render

JULY 22, 2022

CMS releases Medicare OPPS and ASC proposed rule. Advocates concerned about Alabama’s telemedicine law. Long Beach Memorial avoids losing Medicare funding after serious patient care lapses. Lasting nurse shortage in Delaware spurs questions about long-term retention. CMS pitches outpatient payment rule. CMS proposes 2.7%

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B Staff shortages could spur next public health crisis, Baystate Health CEO warns CommonSpirit, Mass General, Moffitt execs to judge telehealth challenge Brigham and Women’s, AI company get $2.5M grant to improve early cognitive decline detection via EHRs How Mass.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

13-year Medicare payment dispute will return to HHS, court rules. A layoff list, expired medicine, neglected patients: Illinois hospital loses Medicare contract. Bill on prescription drug pricing inspires support from Maine residents, opposition from pharmaceutical industry. 64M VA health clinic opens in Portland.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

Department of Labor grant ARIZONA Banner Health donates building to WCH Banner Health names CFO Effects of long Covid far worse in Arizona than other states, study shows Six Banner Health executives named CEOs to know Arizona researchers part of the ‘first step’ in defining long COVID New signs of hope for families facing loss of insurance (..)

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

Specialty medicines are expected to comprise about 60% of Rx spending in developed markets in 2025, tempered by spending on generics and biosimilars. What will be normal within that normal is that millions of people will still feel anxious, stressed, and worried about post-Corona life in peoples’ heads, hearts, and wallets.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

the annual review of prescription drug supply, demand and Rx pricing dynamics from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. In a call with analysts this week in which I participated, Murray Aitken discussed the report which looks back at 2018 and forward to 2023 with scenarios about what the U.S. was $344 billion, a 4.5%

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. Even seemingly popular plan ideas like prescription drug pricing and coverage for pre-existing conditions can’t get traction in Congress or through the White House’s executive pen. health care delivery.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

This is what happened to pharma stock prices on Friday after President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar outlined their new policies focusing on prescription drug prices. The blueprint lists about 50 line items for “now” (immediate action) and “later” (to be considered).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

price and the cost of medicines is tied to how people feel about the pharma industry, evidenced in the Global Pharma Study 2023 from Caliber. We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare. In the U.S., For example, one in ten Americans has diabetes. Not anymore. Let’s finish the job this time.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Previously in Health Populi, I’ve talked about the value of vertical integration for CVS to bring together the building blocks of retail pharmacy and pharmacist care, retail clinics, the PBM (Caremark), along with Aetna’s health plan member base and business. The deal is valued at $69 billion. as the first chart shows. healthcare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2018, spending on branded prescription drugs will fall in wealthy countries, while spending on specialty drugs will increase, resulting in flat medicines spending. “Concerns about existing medicine costs have captured significant attention,” the introduction warns, setting the stage for slowing growth. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

Nine in ten Americans is concerned about the price of prescription drugs in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Gallup and West Health found in their survey on the cost of healthcare, published today. Furthermore, net spending on these expensive “specialty drugs” increased from $8.7 bn to $32.8

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Health Populi

APRIL 26, 2019

Most people over 50 take prescription drugs daily; one-third take two or three Rx’s regularly, and one in five older people take six or more prescription medicines regularly. Thus, prescription drugs are part of most older Americans’ daily life-flows and household spending considerations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2019

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. The study analyzed medical claims for millions of patients, both commercially insured and enrolled in Medicare. of family income.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

appear to have a “YOLO” attitude about spending – that is, in the profligate spending style of “You Only Live Once.” This attribute covers about 1 in 4 U.S. In what the Federal Reserve Bank of New York sees as an “only-in-the-U.S.” In contrast, residents of the U.S. Ironically, CivicScience recently called out a cadre of U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The future of Medicare and Medicaid as well as access to mental health care also rank high among two-thirds of U.S. Abortion in the post-Dobbs environment will also be a key issue for a number of voters (women and many younger men), and gun violence and opioids are public health crises about which most Americans also worry.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2019

is prescription drug prices — that they’re too high, that the Federal government should negotiate to lower costs for Medicare enrollees, and that out-of-pocket costs for drugs should be limited. The biggest culprit/contributor to prescription drug prices? consumers were asked.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

voters’ priorities, across political party – prescription drug prices. voters in 2020 quite like supporting Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, shown by the October 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. Few issues unite U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2019

These two surveys are: The Morning Consult’s poll published today finding growing support among Democratic voters for Medicare for All as the centerpiece for health reform in America; and, A recent study from Eligibility.com on “Medicare Myths Explained,” with the tagline, “How much do you know about Medicare?”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

With the emergence of six-to-seven figure specialty drugs coming out of the Rx pipeline into commerce, we can expect growing financial toxicity as a side effect of these therapies, and evolving financial services offered to patients to pay, say, on an installment plan as Bluebird Therapeutics has offered (specifically, $1.78

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

As I wrote about yesterday (about learning from Governor Kasich), people keen on healthcare should pay attention to the states, which are laboratories for health reform. Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

And here’s the notorious tweet about her use of the f-word, and the link to the article in the Tucson Weekly which reported on the day talked about McSally’s enthusiasm for cutting down the Affordable Care Act with her Republican colleagues in the House. The final vote was 217-213. What a difference a year makes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Sanders, noting his call for big new government benefits like universal health care through Medicare for All and free college tuition. Biden talked about income inequality, immediately pivoting to the President: “Trump thinks Wall Street built America,” Biden began his response. Lester Holt began with Sen. ” Sen.

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The manufacturer sought to cover Medicare patients’ Part D cost-sharing obligations for the drug – which were estimated at approximately $13,000 per year – but the OIG said “no thanks,” and the Second Circuit has affirmed that outcome. ATTR-CM only affects about 150,000 Americans, who are mostly elderly. 1320a-7b (“AKS”).

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