Q&A: GoodRx on partnerships for reducing drug prices
Mobi Health News
APRIL 19, 2024
Doug Hirsch, cofounder and chief strategy officer at GoodRx, sat down with MobiHealthNews to talk about reducing prescription drug prices through partnerships.
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CVS Rebrands Health Services Segment, Launches Model for Retail Pharmacy Reimbursement
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 5, 2023
This innovative approach will establish a transparent formula for drug cost and reimbursement, moving away from the traditional complex and opaque pricing structure. This enhanced transparency will empower consumers to make informed decisions about their prescription drug purchases.
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Medication Safety & Affordability Improving According to Surescripts Data
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 7, 2023
The Report also showed a significant increase in the use of real-time prescription benefits which decreases the out-of-pocket cost of medications for patients. We sat down with Frank Harvey, CEO of Surescripts to discuss the findings in their 2022 National Progress Report and learn more about the company’s plans in the months ahead.
FTC Issues First Financial Penalty for a Health Breach Notification Rule Violation
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
The first financial penalty was imposed almost a year to the day after the guidance was issued for the failure to notify consumers about unauthorized disclosures of their personal health information to Facebook, Google, Criteo, and others for advertising purposes.
Comments to CMS Guidance on the Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program Due March 11, 2023
Health Law Advisor
MARCH 7, 2023
However, CMS’s release of the Initial Rebate Guidances represents the agency’s first significant opportunity to submit substantive and specific input from the broader stakeholder community with regard to one of the most significant components of the prescription drug pricing changes of the IRA.
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Zocdoc Learns What Patients Want: Primary Care Access ASAP, and the Role of Women as Chief Health Officers
Jane Sarashon
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Oliver Kharraz, offered some predictions for 2024 based on what the company has learned this year… Mental health bookings are expected to grow in the latter half of 2024 tied to the U.S.
New CDC Opioid Guidelines: Too Little, Too Late for Chronic Pain Patients?
Kaiser Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
“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 new standards also warn doctors about risks associated with rapid dose changes after long-term use. ” she said.
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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers
Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2023
Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. For this study, PwC conducted 21 surveys and 12 interviews in April through May 2023 among health plan actuaries covering about 100 million employer-sponsored lives and 10 million ACA marketplace members. CMS) and commercial/private side of health plan strategies.
Quick, Accessible, Inexpensive Health Care – A Retail Health Update from Amazon and Dollar General
Jane Sarashon
JANUARY 24, 2023
” I wrote about Dollar General’s growing health care strategy in July 2021 here in Health Populi , and in December 2022 its project with the Consumer Healthcare Products Association to bolster health literacy for over-the-counter medicines. Right outside the store.”
Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family
Health Populi
OCTOBER 22, 2019
In the 2019 dictionary next to the word “stress,” we would find variations of a definition all deriving from Americans’ current worries about their money, the economy, and health care costs…then, family responsibilities and jobs. That’s quite a large chasm between these two numbers, about $2,400.
New CDC Opioid Guidelines: Too Little, Too Late for Chronic Pain Patients?
Kaiser Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
“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 new standards also warn doctors about risks associated with rapid dose changes after long-term use. ” she said.
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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?
Health Populi
OCTOBER 28, 2019
When asked what factors contribute to rising health care costs in America, most consumers cite the cost of prescription drugs. Taken together, these two data points demonstrate the potent political import of prescription drug prices as the U.S. Between 2007 and 2014, hospital prices grew 42%.
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Drug Price Transparency: Planning for Change
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Designed to shed light on the true cost of drugs and to ensure that consumers and insurers aren’t being gouged, drug pricing transparency laws seek to level the playing field by delivering greater visibility into drug costs. About Kyle Forcier Kyle Forcier is a senior director of corporate strategy for Model N.
Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical
Health Populi
APRIL 24, 2019
.” Ultimately, to earn and sustain trust with people, healthcare organizations — the five segments — should be transparent about the costs of products and services, provide balanced information about both benefits and side effects, and provide tools and support to help people manage their health.
In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned
Health Populi
JANUARY 18, 2019
He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et. higher-than-world-average health care spending is mostly about how services are priced, versus whether Americans use more healthcare. The price of the therapy, LentiGlobin, could be as high as $2.1
Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America
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.
Health Apps and Consumer Privacy Update: Federal Trade Commission Proposes Amendments to the Health Breach Notification Rule
Health Law Advisor
MAY 26, 2023
We previously wrote about the FTC’s policy statement, in which the FTC took the position that mobile health applications that are not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) are covered by the HBNR. Read more about our expansive capabilities and offerings here.
Health Provider News – July 22, 2022
Hall Render
JULY 22, 2022
Advocates concerned about Alabama’s telemedicine law. Lasting nurse shortage in Delaware spurs questions about long-term retention. Hawaii study on private labs’ profits from PCR testing raises questions about US health care spending. Cases of monkeypox have doubled in Alabama, but vaccine is on the way. PENNSYLVANIA.
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Health Provider News
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.
Health Provider News – February 18, 2022
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Bill on prescription drug pricing inspires support from Maine residents, opposition from pharmaceutical industry. Mid-Michigan mental health providers concerned about attempts to privatize system. Shark Tank’-style competition leads to artificial intelligence-powered prescription refills for health system.
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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – February 25, 2022
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Ige responds to KITV4 about when Hawaii will lift its mask mandate. Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan. ‘You’re pushing people out the door’: Nurse voices concern about SSM pay calculation changes. FEMA issues $1.5M McLaren is moving east. .
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Spending on Medicines In and Post-COVID Say a Lot About Patients and Larger Healthcare Trends – an IQVIA Update
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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62 The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care
Health Populi
JUNE 14, 2019
” Consumers’ concerns about privacy of personal data are “moderating,” one chart illustrates. 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.
Prescription Drug Costs In America Through the Patient Lens, via IQVIA, GoodRx and a New $2 Million Therapy
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%
The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love
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. But let’s make sure we’re not irrationally exuberant about the private sector solving social care issues for health. health care delivery.
More Federal Action in the Pharmaceutical Sector as PBM Bill Advances in the Senate
Health Law Advisor
MAY 22, 2023
1339) reflects the overarching legislative push by members from both sides of the aisle and chambers of Congress to address drug pricing issues through federal fixes to the PBM framework. 2] While it is still relatively early in the legislative process, enactment of provisions in the current iteration of S.
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52 Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2019
The good news: that Americans have become more aware of information comparing clinician quality, and more often seek that information than they have in the past — especially other patients’ comments about doctors. This was one of those lifetime lightbulb moments for me both personally and professionally.
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The Gap Between the Trump Administration’s Promise of Reducing Rx Costs for Consumers and What People Really Want
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).
Health Provider News – November 11, 2022
Hall Render
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Metro hospitals concerned about winter ‘triple threat’ of pediatric illnesses. in prescription drug pricing case. What to know about Mount Nittany’s new $90M outpatient center. U of Iowa seeks approval for $16M in projects aimed at easing capacity issues. Express Scripts to shell out $3.2M
Health Provider News
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. too much.
Health Provider News
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B million for cancer research from CPRIT Molina Healthcare strikes deal with 3 Texas hospitals Amid extreme weather, congressional investigation sounds alarm on nursing homes’ emergency preparedness Texas health group to pay $21.6M
The Reputation of Pharma Among U.S. Consumers Is Tied More to Pricing Than to Innovation
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. In the U.S., Caliber, a reputation and corporate strategy consultancy, fielded survey research among over 17,000 health consumers including U.S. For example, one in ten Americans has diabetes.
CVS + Aetna: Inflection Point in US Healthcare, Merger Approved Update
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.
Rx 2018: A New Era of Specialty Drugs, Telehealth, Mobile Apps and Value, IQVIA Reports
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. .
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Drug Price Bill Is a Go in the Senate
Kaiser Health News
JULY 21, 2022
But work continues, particularly on a Senate bill that could, for the first time, allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and cap seniors’ out-of-pocket medication costs. KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues.
Americans Across Political Party Worry About Prescription Drug Prices – Especially to Deal with COVID-19
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. A majority of people across political party share this concern: overall, 88% of U.S. 84% of Republicans.
Across All Political Parties, Likely Voters Over 50 Favor Cutting Prescription Drug Prices
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.
The United States of Diabetes: a $1,240 Tax on Every American
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. Know that one of these insulin products, Lilly’s Humalog, came onto the market in 1996. Maris Kreizman muses, “I used to dream of a cure.
The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast
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.
Women’s Health Policy Advice for the Next Occupant of the White House: Deal With Mental Health, the Pandemic, and Health Care Costs
Health Populi
OCTOBER 19, 2020
voters were driven to the polls in the 2018 mid-term elections due to concerns about health care. Women, being Chief Health Officers of their Families, influencing 80% of health care decisions, well know how to connect the dots between health care costs and their household financial wellness. ” Millions of U.S.
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In 2023, the U.S. Will Still Be the #1 Prescription Drug Spender in the World, IQVIA Forecasts
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. The top-line of the research is the robust pharma market growth will be driven by two factors, and limited by two others: spending in the U.S.
Most Americans Across Party ID Favor U.S. Government Negotiation to Lower Rx Drug Costs
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.
Inflation and the cost of health care top U.S. voters’ issues for 2024 elections
Health Populi
DECEMBER 6, 2023
What we-know-we-know is that home economics — for living (housing, utilities/energy costs, the price of petrol) — and health economics in the forms of deductibles, out-of-pocket costs, and prescription drug prices — are informing voters’ key issues that as of November would drive people to the polls.
What the Pew Data on Americans’ Views on Technology Means for Healthcare
Health Populi
JULY 2, 2018
This data point is part of a larger consumer survey on Americans’ attitudes about the growing role of technology in society, particularly with respect to political and social impacts. What was intriguing about that research is that biotech was much more trusted than pharma, with biotech being seen as more innovative.
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