Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board. Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

The study design covered people aged 18 to 64 years, excluding older people assumed to be covered by Medicare. In Trends in Unmet Need for Physician and Preventive Services in the United States, 1998-2017 , researchers analyzed twenty years’ worth of data from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 23, 2020

The commercial healthcare market is likely to contract and demand for Medicare/Medicaid will increase. What precautions are currently being taken to negate the impact of costs directly related to COVID-19 such as screening, hospital admissions and long-term treatment of COVID-related health issues? But longer term?

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

More savings would accrue through the quicker adoption of value-based payment models, the authors assert, where clinicians take on financial risk for managing population health. Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research. patients).

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2019

The trend has implications for employers, payers, providers and even pharmaceutical and life science companies. For payers, it becomes important to benchmark the prices paid commercially against a common reference point such as Medicare. WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage. Note the new alliance between Walmart and Anthem to channel OTC meds to Medicare Advantage members).

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

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JUNE 7, 2018

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. As we noted, this was due to such factors as higher-than-normal expenses for staff, supplies, and pharmaceuticals and lower revenues.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

In the nation’s search for spending smarter on health care, the U.S.

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ACA Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

A bill in New Mexico would create a task force on pharmaceutical pricing, while a proposed law in Washington State would cap consumers’ out-of-pocket spending on prescription medications. Geoffrey Joyce , director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

In 2018, we saw more incentives to inspire adherence to prescription drug regimens, particularly in Medicare Part D along with increasing focus by pharmacists and providers. Just under 9% of patients across all three health plan types had over $500 in OOP costs in 2018. A cost of $125 or more yields abandonment of at least 50%.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

as well as purchasing pharmaceuticals. The exploding elderly population, in combination with a shrinking workforce to fund Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, will force our health system to ration care in new ways. Diminishing fragmented healthcare and redundant care will become an increasing focus for health policy.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Since the CVS+Aetna announcement last December, the Kaiser Family Foundation ran some numbers on how the merged organization could impact Medicare — a key payor for both health insurance and prescription drugs under Part D.

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OCTOBER 16, 2022

On Tuesday November 8, 2022, health and medical issues will be on many U.S. Health policy experts from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, AARP, and the United States of Care recently shared perspectives on the health care issues on voters’ and policy makers’ minds for the 2022 midterm elections.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Among all Americans, the most popular approach for improving the health care in the U.S. isn’t repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act or moving to a Medicare-for-All government-provided plan. Addressing employer-sponsored health insurance. Reducing system-wide health care costs. Improving Medicare.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy.

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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. That would be profits made by pharmaceutical companies, cited by 80% of respondents. consumers were asked.

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APRIL 26, 2019

It’s a rational response, then, that 9 in 10 older voters agree that pharmaceutical companies “make too much profits,” once again consistent — equally felt — by older voters across all three political parties, shown in the second bar chart. consumers to import cheaper prescription drugs from other countries.

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JUNE 18, 2020

The authors, Dr. Naci and Dr. Kesselheim, are affiliated with the London School of Economics and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, note that 1% of medicines dispensed under Medicare Part D and Medicaid accounted for nearly $1 in $3 of drug spending in each program in 2015. bn to $32.8 bn to $9.9 bn for Medicaid.

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JUNE 4, 2019

state), compensation for physicians by specialty (ranging from nearly one-half million dollars in orthopedics at the high end to a lower boundary of $212,000 for pediatrics), and inpatient payment for Medicare patients ranging from a high in San Francisco and a lower price in Youngstown, OH.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S. voters across political party: that is the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs.

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MARCH 29, 2019

Most Republicans (74%) favor fostering greater competition between health care professionals and hospitals; 73% of Democrats point to the government capping prices on hospital and provider charges, allowing people 50-64 to buy into Medicare, and changing the health system so that most people have Medicare with little to no private insurance.

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JUNE 27, 2019

[This, the impact of social determinants of health beyond health care, is the underlying theme of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen ]. Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal. ” [This sad truth about U.S.

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APRIL 2, 2021

adults with respect to peoples’ ability to afford quality health care. By age, younger Non-White adults have a harder time paying for health care — not a surprise as older Americans 65 and over can access Medicare. seniors when it comes to affording quality health care. Health care spending for U.S.

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JUNE 3, 2021

adults note that expanding Medicare to including hearing aids, dental and vision coverage would be their top or an important priority, shown in the second line in the bar chart on public priorities. States to negotiate with drug companies to get lower prices on Rx meds in their state, and. On the cost-front, 90% of U.S.

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APRIL 27, 2023

On 26th April 2023, the EC unveiled the most significant reforms for the region’s pharmaceutical industry in twenty years. It’s really a package or “toolkit” in the words of EC Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides for addressing several strategic health pillars including but not limited to medicines.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

voters in 2020 quite like supporting Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, shown by the October 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll. This morning we don’t have a transcript of the speech ahead of the event, but one topic remains high on U.S. Few issues unite U.S.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Democrats have been committed to the concept of the government negotiating drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies the way other developed countries do. Doggett has been drafting legislation to allow the government such authority for drugs covered by Medicare Part D. pharma costs on reference pricing].

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Lowering Rx prices is the top health policy issue for Republicans tied with addressing the drug epidemic. Independents rank the cost of medicines top of all health care priorities. For Democrats, ensuring ACA protections for pre-existing conditions holds.

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MAY 19, 2019

They don’t tend to shop around for health care or be super-engaged in their care, probably because they tend to be older and more likely to be covered by Medicare. They may be threatened by a call for “Medicare for All” given their affection for the program.

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JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Sanders explained that the vast majority of people will pay significantly less for health care than they do right now. .

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Henry Kotula

JULY 31, 2019

Seven support Medicare for All. Unlike many of his Democratic rivals, Biden does not support full Medicare for All. Instead of getting rid of private insurance, Biden said he would build on the ACA through the Biden Plan to create a public health insurance option. ” Kamala Harris. ” Kamala Harris.

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