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What If Costco Designed the Prescription Drugs Sales Model?

Health Populi

Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way Americans currently pay for medicines. health citizens access to high-value and lifesaving meds.

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Medicare Advantage’s Favorable Selection Problem

Digital Health Wire

Medicare Advantage plans could be on track to reach over $75B in overpayments this year – nearly 3x prior estimates – causing researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to issue a pressing call for policy reform. As a result, risk-adjusted expenditures for the 16.9M

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Former Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Richard Carmona Joins DrKumo’s Advisory Board

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Carmona brings a wealth of experience and expertise to DrKumo, having served as the Surgeon General from 2002 to 2006. His distinguished career in medicine, public health, and as a healthcare leader will provide invaluable insights and guidance as DrKumo continues to expand its impact in the healthcare industry. “Dr.

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

Health Populi

If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded. states set the bar higher for their health citizens’ well-being.

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A million views in 44 days! ClearHealthCosts price transparency TED Talk goes viral

Society for Participatory Medicine

That means word is getting around about how insane US health prices are. Good thing, too – there’s a famous 2006 health policy article called The Pricing of US Hospital Services: Chaos Behind a Veil of Secrecy. There’s only one way that happens: people are sending it to friends.

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Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage

Health Populi

That percentage of people who delay medical cost based on the expense has remained stable since 2006: between 29 and 31 percent of Americans have self-rationed care due to cost for over a decade. And, 19% of U.S. mid-terms elections in the first week of November, 2018.

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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

More than twice as many Black men believe that in 2020 compared with 2006. More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).