Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Collaborations between AI vendors and biotech/pharma companies over the last five years are worth more than $45 billion , according to a recent report from Accenture. Medicare Advantage costs are 12% lower than similar beneficiaries covered under fee-for-service Medicare, according to research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. In the case of Medicare Part D, the drug benefit, Chandra said, “If you’re sick enough to fall into the donut hole, you may have higher mortality.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Taken together, these two data points demonstrate the potent political import of prescription drug prices as the U.S. Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers. People in the U.S. approaches the 2020 Presidential election. The Physicians Foundation surveyed 2,001 U.S. Congress and healthcare spending.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2019

This poll from RealClear Politics , conducted in late April/early May 2019, makes my point that the patient is the consumer and, facing deductibles and more financial exposure to footing the medical bill, the payor. They may be threatened by a call for “Medicare for All” given their affection for the program.

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