Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2018

voters, across the three-party landscape, agree on two healthcare issues this year: coverage of pre-existing conditions, and lowering the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs. A new poll jointly conducted by Politico and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health bolsters my read on the latter issue – prescription drug pricing, which has become a mass popular culture union. There’s growing evidence that a majority of U.S.

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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. CMS defines specialty drugs as therapies with monthly costs over $670.

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Health Populi

APRIL 26, 2019

that are likely to vote in the 2020 Presidential election are keenly interested in lowering the cost of prescription drugs, according to a survey conducted by AARP in February and March 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. consumers pay more for prescription drugs compared with peers in other wealthy countries.

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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.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pricing failure, with waste ranging $231 bn – $241 bn. The second largest waste component was pricing failure, associated with medication pricing failure (the largest piece of three components), payer-based health services pricing failure, and lab and ambulatory pricing. Pricing failure as a waste-factor accounted for nearly another third of total waste in U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 21, 2022

What You Should Know: – Capital Rx is partnering with Independa , a telehealth engagement platform for seniors, to bring its prescription savings card to the older adult population via LG TVs. High Cost of Prescription Meds on Older Adults.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2021

health citizens support attacking COVID-19 through testing, federal support for vaccines, expanding telehealth, expanding the ACA, and reforming (lowering) prescription drug prices.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

Today, as Congress kicks off hearings about the cost of prescription drugs in the United States, IQVIA published its 2019 report on The Global Use of Medicine in 2019 and Outlook to 2023. will continue to be the number 1 prescription drug spender in the world to 2023, IQVIA forecasts, shown in the first chart where I clipped the top 20 to 10 top spenders. paid for prescription drugs in 2018, with roughly four times the number of health citizens.

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Health Care Law Brief

JANUARY 19, 2022

On December 31, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark legislation to increase the transparency of prescription drug pricing and to establish requirements on pharmacy middlemen. Price transparency.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. The post Support for Drug Price Negotiation Brings Partisans Together in the U.S. Most U.S.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

Cost is a major determining factor for patients deciding whether to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. But what if prescribers and patients could view prescription drug costs and discuss options at the point of care to avoid "sticker shock" at the pharmacy counter?

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

Between 2021 and 2025, the annual growth global growth rate for prescription drugs spending is expected to range from 3% to 6%, a $1.6 As such, the debate on prescription drug pricing in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2019

In fact, Democrats’ keen concern for several health care issues — at the top of that list, prescription drug prices, guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions, and women’s health care access — drove many voters to the polls in the 2018 mid-term elections. And, Part D, which covers prescription drugs, is an add-on to Medicare sold through private insurance companies for an average of just under $40.

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CMS.gov

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Under the leadership of President Trump, CMS is committed to lowering prescription drug prices for all Americans. A key component of our strategy is strengthening competition among generic and biosimilar medicines

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

Among various specific health care factors, protecting pre-existing conditions is highly important for voters across political party, followed by passing legislation to reduce the price of prescription drugs. Another unifying health care issue is prescription drug prices, which KFF has tracked for several years. Most voters across party have told previous KFF polls they believe in more government regulation or intervention on drug costs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. When asked what factors contribute to rising health care costs in America, most consumers cite the cost of prescription drugs. People in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Cost concerns create barriers for some people who don’t visit doctors or fill/take prescription drugs: 27% of Americans cancelled a medical appointment due to expected health care costs, and 22% said they did not take their prescription meds in the past year because the cost of the drugs was too high, TransAmerica’s survey found.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

At the same time, women have borne a “pink tax” for household goods and, indeed, healthcare prices, a topic I covered here in the Huffington Post a while ago in an essay I titled, “The Gender Disparity of Taxes: Toys, Tech and Tampons.” This data point gives further impetus to prescription drug price hearings in Congress and various proposals promulgated on Capitol Hill to address the cost of medicines.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2019

Congress this week on the topic of prescription drug costs. 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. So would rational drug pricing for the key supply item people with diabetes need: insulin. “No He said, “I’m going to bring down drug prices. I don’t like what’s happening to drug prices.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

We’ll start with the centerpiece that will provide the overall context for this post: that’s the ongoing research of Gerard Anderson and colleagues under the title, It’s Still The Prices, Stupid: Why The US Spends So Much On Health Care, And A Tribute To Uwe Reinhardt. He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et. The price of the therapy, LentiGlobin, could be as high as $2.1

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2018

Credit scores, payment plans for hospital stays and specialty drugs, and the expanding financial risk due to high-deductibles all play into the patient-as-payor and trust. The Pew research continues to build the case that prescription drug pricing, and healthcare financial risks, will play a large role in popular culture, and in the 2018 mid-term and 2020 Presidential elections.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

342 hospitals have received price transparency noncompliance notices from CMS. Nursing homes dealing with price gouging from staffing agencies. Family Dollar recalls drugs, devices shipped from rodent-infested Arkansas facility. Patients are coming after hospital prices. Some Maryland hospitals fail to provide required price transparency, report finds. Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan. NATIONAL.

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Medval Compliance Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Transparency in Pricing. 1] While at first glance the concept seems simple, transparent pricing is an issue that has long confounded regulators, administrators, and consumers alike. Moreover, not only do prices for health services differ across the U.S., by Noel D.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

2020 marked the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. In this auspicious year for women’s voting rights, as COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in February, women’s labor force participation rate was 58%.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Only 14% of Hospitals Met Price Transparency Rule Compliance. Nursing homes say they’re being price gouged by direct care staffing agencies. Six Connecticut residents sue Hartford HealthCare, accusing hospital system of anticompetitive practices that drive up prices. Bill on prescription drug pricing inspires support from Maine residents, opposition from pharmaceutical industry. Carson hospital 1 of only 7 meeting price transparency law.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. Across the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

prices are greater than in fellow OECD nations: wages are higher for specialist physicians, prices for digital imaging greater, and of course prescription drug prices the highest in the world. The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293).

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

prescriptions per person in 2018, two in three of which treated chronic conditions. the annual review of prescription drug supply, demand and Rx pricing dynamics from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. prescription drug market might look like five years from now. These prescriptions are increasingly filled as 90-day supplies of drugs via mail order or retail pharmacy channels. Americans consumed 17.6

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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 for restructuring the prescription drug industry, is called “American Patients First,” addressing four challenges: High list prices for drugs. Seniors and government programs over-paying for drugs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Telehealth is becoming just a normal part of medical service delivery, fast-growing for mental and behavioral health, DTC prescriptions for women’s and men’s health (looking at the trajectory of Ro, Hims and Hers ), employers’ sponsorship of telehealth visits, and niched virtual health services.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Consumer Price Index rose 2.1% The three line graphs illustrate CPI trends for the past twelve months (June 2018-2019) for prescription drugs (down 2.0%), hospital spending (up 0.5%) and health insurance, which grew 13.7% — six times faster than the overall Consumer Price Index, and much faster than hospitals and the (short-term) deflated prescription drug price inflation. [We

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

While price transparency is a sound concept, it’s not a panacea, the authors contend. Just two weeks ago, I read the cover story, “It’s still the prices, stupid,” shown here from the cover of Modern Healthcare dated 25 February 2019. In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in the U.S. “Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

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. And there’s very little bidding on drugs.” ” Remember that prescription drug spending continues to hover around one-tenth of overall U.S.

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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. Key factors for slow growth include payor concerns about budgets and the consideration of value when deciding on access for new specialty drugs – which are typically high-cost products compared with traditional pharma medicines. The report pointed especially to hospital and pharmaceutical prices.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As Amazon and other entrants apply their innovative approaches and technologies into American healthcare, consumers are expecting more streamlining, convenience, and lower (and transparent) prices. Since the CVS+Aetna announcement last December, the Kaiser Family Foundation ran some numbers on how the merged organization could impact Medicare — a key payor for both health insurance and prescription drugs under Part D.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Lowering the costs of care, ensuring the integrity of Medicare benefits, ensuring that low-income people don’t lose Medicaid coverage, and lowering prescription drug prices gain majority support across all health care voters who say health care is extremely important in the choice for members of Congress this year. “Let’s get this thing f-ing done,” Martha McSally passionately asserted on May 4, 2017. Paul Ryan said, on the floor of the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing. Democrats have been committed to the concept of the government negotiating drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies the way other developed countries do. pharma costs on reference pricing]. Doggett has been drafting legislation to allow the government such authority for drugs covered by Medicare Part D.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

” The things we’re trying to change, she explained, is when companies care more about profits than people, citing the “greed” of insurance and drug companies and the gun lobby. He added that it’s not in the interest of health insurance or drug companies to provide quality care in a cost-effective manner. Americans pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, Sanders repeated from the night-before debate, and he would lower these by half.

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Sinha (Northeastern University), Costly Gadgets: Barriers to Market Entry and Price Competition for Generic Drug-Device Combinations in the United States, Minn. forthcoming 2022): Prescription drug prices continue to rise unabated in the United States Michael S.

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