Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

When asked what factors contribute to rising health care costs in America, most consumers cite the cost of prescription drugs. Taken together, these two data points demonstrate the potent political import of prescription drug prices as the U.S. approaches the 2020 Presidential election.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

The line chart shows us that from 2020 onward, the unit cost trend for behavioral health spiked to 2023 from about $100 to $125m and that behavioral health claims as a percent of all medical claims more than doubled between 2018 to the third quarter of 2023.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2018

The Pew research continues to build the case that prescription drug pricing, and healthcare financial risks, will play a large role in popular culture, and in the 2018 mid-term and 2020 Presidential elections. These financial and trust-risks impact Republicans and Democrats alike.

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 22, 2023

1339) reflects the overarching legislative push by members from both sides of the aisle and chambers of Congress to address drug pricing issues through federal fixes to the PBM framework. 2d 327 (2020). [4] 2] While it is still relatively early in the legislative process, enactment of provisions in the current iteration of S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 21, 2022

High Cost of Prescription Meds on Older Adults. The high cost of prescription medications are crushing the older adults who can’t afford their life-saving medications. An AARP report finds in 2020 that the price of hundreds of brand-name medications rose more than twice as fast as inflation.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

Others of us feel anxiety and stress due to negative financial impacts from the shutdown economy, recovering in a K-shape where some citizens have fared pretty well (largely, those who could work-from-home and those who had investments in the stock market), and others on the low-tail of that K whose household finances eroded in 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

He led the creation of the Northwell Health’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention in 2020. The post Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Health Care Policies – From Medicare and Prescription Drugs to Gun Safety appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

Ezequiel Molina targets expansion of Piedmont’s heart transplant system Grady Health System’s Cole Tatman set the tone for calm in Burn Unit Northside Hospital emergency specialist Trystan Drummond has ‘uncanny’ ability to solve problems, move forward Wellstar Health System to open center for $100M innovation fund in Atlanta Wellstar, Northeast Georgia (..)

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen. Intermountain is but one health care provider that will commit to social determinants beyond food and lifts for medical transport in 2020. health care delivery.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

voters’ priorities, across political party – prescription drug prices. 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. Few issues unite U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2019

In typical markets, as products mature and get mass adoption, prices fall. But then prescription drug pricing doesn’t conform with how typical markets work in theory. Know that one of these insulin products, Lilly’s Humalog, came onto the market in 1996.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In 2020, avoiding care will be a new normal for even more people, a fact of American health life explained in a recent survey from NRC titled, The Decade of Deferment. The biggest known-unknown for 2020 is politics on the macro/national U.S. This is why in PwC’s forecast for 2020, they expect that “regulation will trump policy.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

For health care privacy, Americans’ HIPAA provisions surely don’t cover personal information that informs health beyond the healthcare claim the way Europeans’ GDPR or the soon-to-be-implemented California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 do. Much of this is due to the fact that U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

We agreed — prescription drug pricing, from the patient’s point of view, is complicated, indeed. ” The politics of prescription drug pricing will continue to be personal for health care voters, I forecast in my own scenarios looking toward not 2023 — but 2020.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Lowering the costs of care, ensuring the integrity of Medicare benefits, ensuring that low-income people don’t lose Medicaid coverage, and lowering prescription drug prices gain majority support across all health care voters who say health care is extremely important in the choice for members of Congress this year.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing. Welcome to the 2020 Presidential campaign season, all 726 left of it. Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voters also opted into Medicaid expansion.

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2019

We must hasten to add that Rx CPI was driven down by the influence of generic drug prices in the past year]. Expect moderate Democrats to appeal to this potential cross-over voting bloc in the coming months as a lead-up to the Democratic primaries and eventual 2020 Presidential Election.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

2020 marked the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. ages 22 to 45 years old in September 2020. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. In this auspicious year for women’s voting rights, as COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in February, women’s labor force participation rate was 58%.

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Medval Compliance Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For example, pricing for a lumbar fusion procedure may cost significantly less in a hospital in a claimant’s local area compared to the cost for that same procedure in a major medical center (cross-referenced to the claimant’s zip code in accordance with CMS guidelines). 2020, February 24). 1] Fletcher, Terry. 2] Himmelstein, et.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order directing the U.S. Conclusion PBMs hold significant power over prescription drug pricing and access. Even if these reforms do not pass this term, bipartisan interest suggests they may be reintroduced and enacted in some manner under next session’s Republican-led Congress.

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Jane Sarashon

AUGUST 26, 2024

Vot-ER has inspired a growing call-to-action since the project launched in 2020, now with over 350 institutional partnerships, 700 participating sites, and over 50,000 health care professionals taking part of Vot-ER actions on the ground in their institutions with patients.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Looking at this photo of the 2020 Democratic Party Presidential candidate debater line-up might give you a déjà vu feeling, a repeat of the night-before debate. ” Lower my drug prices. ” The story included this graph comparing drug company profits to other successful businesses operating in the U.S.,

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Based on the results of the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire, it appears more likely than ever before that the 2024 presidential election will be a rerun of 2020: Joe Biden versus Donald Trump. And health is shaping up to be a key issue.

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