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The New Drug Companies Aren’t Drug Companies At All

Health Populi

This research organization will develop medicines targeting older adults — which makes sense because Clover Health’s target consumer market is Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. The objective of this investment round is to further scale GNS solutions that personalize medicines to individual patients.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S. to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies].

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

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” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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The Gap Between the Trump Administration’s Promise of Reducing Rx Costs for Consumers and What People Really Want

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Smart Pharmaceuticals Index (NQSSPH) from May 11, 2018, the date when POTUS and Secretary Azar made their announcement. Incentives for lowering list prices for medicines, such as FDA requiring that drug companies include list prices in ads and bringing more transparency to Medicare drug pricing and generic competition, and.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

The bar chart shows that PhRMA (the advocacy group for the pharmaceutical industry), Blue Cross & Blue Shield Association, the American Hospital Association, and the American Medical Association (representing physicians) were four of the ten highest spending lobbyers in 2018. A recent study on politics and health care spending in the U.S.

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The Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA

Health Populi

Payors have begun to recognize the value of nudging consumers toward over-the-counter products under Medicare Advantage plans. To that point, IRI’s Kristin Hornberger presented new data on retail health market performance in 2018. Consumer health as a category was $45 billion in 2018, growing at 2.1%.

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What’s on Dexcom’s Radar?

Insulin Nation

If so, this would lead to Medicare-contracted insurance plans covering the cost of CGMs as reimbursable durable medical equipment. If the CGM becomes covered by Medicare, demand for CGMs could spike even further. (While many CGM users already do this, it is not technically an allowed use for the device, according to FDA labeling.).