Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2023

OptumRx launched Price Edge, a tool that compares pricing for traditional generic drugs to ensure members get the lowest prescription drug prices. It's a new year, and healthcare technology vendors are rolling out their latest innovations, market approvals, acquisitions and staffing shake-ups.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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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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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Why some Medicaid providers in Colorado aren’t getting paid. Double-booked surgeries lead to $14.6 Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan. Missouri Takes Months to Process Medicaid Applications — Longer Than Law Allows. Is this the year NC gets Medicaid expansion?

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

Adherence is not equal across every state in America, IQVIA Institute learned: for major chronic conditions of hypertension, cholesterol and diabetes, adherence was a low of around 50% among Medicaid enrollees in Arkansas, Iowa and New York; and as high approaching 90% in Minnesota for Medicare Part D enrollees in that state.

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