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

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

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

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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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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APRIL 8, 2022

Couple this will labor, material shortages, and disrupted supply chains, the exogenous shock of the Ukraine crisis amplifying cost increases and shortage driving higher prices for food and commodities, and global consumers are faced with strains in household budgets. Expect more like this, with grocery store and Big Box alliances, as well.

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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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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

This growing demand fuelled stock prices of companies developing and manufacturing GLP-1s, such as Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and Boehringer Ingelheim. This broadened the market potential for GLP-1s, attracting further investment and boosting stock prices of companies involved in this research.

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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. So a new poll published this month by the Harvard T.H.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

New data from NCSolutions (NCS) polled 2,017 U.S. At the start of 2021, over one-third of people started the new year with heathy eating and exercise goals, along with more economizing to save money. consumers in March 2021 on perspectives one year into COVID.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2019

That’s the title of the first chapter of my new book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. We Are All Health Consumers Now. I start this chapter quoting President Ronald Reagan in 1983, who recognized that health care costs were growing at three times the rate of inflation during the first term of his Presidency.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

In another factor to add into the retail health landscape, Dollar General (DG) the 80-year old retailer known for selling low-priced fast-moving consumer goods in peoples’ neighborhoods appointed a healthcare advisory panel this week. are priced at $1.50 — the same price since it was first offered in 1985.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Younger people identified the cost of prescription drugs as a problem: 38% of people under 35 said they had difficulty paying for medicines, versus 8% of people 65 and older. Ten years later, as media headlines and the President boast an improved American economy, the same proportion of people are self-rationing healthcare due to cost.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2021

President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger. Ultimately, U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2019

Health and finances are highly intertwined, Optum concludes, explaining how health savings accounts and proactive planning can help risk-manage the stresses of chronic medical expenses. Bluebird set the price of Zynteglo at about $1.8 In 2019, today, we see CAR-T therapy can cost $1.5 million all-in.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

The report details many other aspects of health care impacts in America; this post only focuses on patient-facing health services shifts, but the entire report is well worth your review to gain a broad perspective of how COVID-19 is touching a range of aspects of U.S. health care. virtual vs. bricks-and-mortar), among other factors.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2019

For context, this chapter follows two that explain how patients in the U.S. have been morphing into health consumers based on how health care is financed and delivered in America. Furthermore, two in five people would be willing to use Amazon as a prescription drug channel.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In fact, the coronavirus crisis impacts on pharma are especially accelerated based on how the pandemic has affected health care providers, as seen through research from Accenture published in Reinventing Relevance: New Models for Pharma Engagement with Healthcare Providers in a COVID-19 World. in May and June 2020. Thus, in the U.S.,

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Drug development The traditional drug discovery process is characterized by its protracted timeline, high costs, and significant attrition rates among drug candidates. In the 90s a new type of study was introduced in silico trials.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2019

A “one layered delivery network through which patients can move seamlessly as they age and their needs evolve” will be the new health care platform to meet patients’ demands by 2030, according to a forecast from KPMG’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Institute. delivery and financing system.

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Insulin Nation

MARCH 26, 2020

Food & Drug Administration is finally making a serious effort to improve our access to insulin. . As such, the transition of insulin products from approved drug applications to deemed biological product licenses will open up those products to potential biosimilar and interchangeable competition.”. Why no Generic Insulins?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Consumers who have long purchased over-the-counter medicines, anti-dandruff shampoo, whitening toothpaste, and cosmetics-with-benefits at food, drug and mass merchant retailers are switching to other places to shop for health, new data from AT Kearney and GMDC have found.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2020

Imagine this: you find yourself with $6,553 in your pocket and you can pick one of the following: A new 2020 Breitling Navitimer watch; A year’s in-state tuition at Valdosta State University; or, A PPO for an average individual. Top-line, there are new-new costs borne in 2020 for virus testing and treatment. That is a 4.1%

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

After five years and 100 episodes, now is an opportune time to look back and examine how healthcare has improved and in what ways American medicine has become more problematic. The biggest stumbling block to their widespread use is the drug’s exorbitant price (upwards of $16,000 for a year’s supply). It’s a good start.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

CLICK HERE and let us show how BHM’s economically maintain turn-around times and accuracy for new members. drug prices drug prices. A record number of laws have been passed by states this year to increase affordability and access to prescription drugs, according to Kaiser Health News.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. That’s a new bar not just for retail and banking, but for health care and insurance as well.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JANUARY 8, 2019

CLICK HERE and let us show how BHM’s economically maintain turn-around times and accuracy for new members. drug prices drug prices. For the study, researchers analyzed pricing data from First Databank and the UPMC Health Plan. percent, and injectable brand-name drug prices rose 15.1

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

Edelman’s Trust Barometer measured consumers’ health tech sentiment, shown in the third graphic which captures peoples’ forecast on how tech will impact healthcare in the next five years. The first layer concerns how trust between what Edelman segments as the “informed public” versus the mass population.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 14, 2015

A new study finds that people with diabetes in the U.S. times more than those in the UK for two popular insulins and a rare drug to treat diabetic retinopathy. consumers absorb this higher cost despite often not being the first in line to have access to new drugs or medical device treatments. are paying between 5.7

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

patients said the state of the economy changes how often they seek health care, according to a new study from TransUnion , the credit agency that operates in the health care finance space. In this study, TransUnion found that one-half of patients didn’t understand how much they owed providers. Four in ten U.S.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

CLICK HERE and let us show how BHM’s economically maintain turn-around times and accuracy for new members. Drugmakers increased the price of 60 products August — a sharp decline from July, which saw 110 price increases, according to a Wells Fargo drug-pricing report. Many of these drugs are generics.

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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

JUNE 7, 2018

The first illustration shows how medical conditions were divided into the 261 so-called “detail conditions.” The key drivers of spending growth were the adoption of new technologies, shifting to more preventive services, obesity and population aging. For these diseases, the high drug cost is largely behind the cost growth.

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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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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 26, 2018

CLICK HERE and let us show how BHM’s economically maintain turn-around times and accuracy for new members. According to AHIP’s newly released Issue Brief , drug prices are out of control, hurting hardworking families across the United States. The vast majority of them are branded drugs.

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