Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. Even seemingly popular plan ideas like prescription drug pricing and coverage for pre-existing conditions can’t get traction in Congress or through the White House’s executive pen.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 4, 2024

NATIONAL 5 Stark law issues physicians are closely watching Anti-monopoly advocates urge FTC to block McKesson, Cardinal Health’s big-ticket oncology acquisitions Biden administration doles out $68.5M

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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. Unlike the IRA, which targeted the Medicare program, the provisions of S. 1339, adding several new amendments to create the version of S.

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Health Populi

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. The Academy convened a team with experience and gravitas to inform this report.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The year-on-year decline from 2021 find oil and gas at the lowest level of positivity, advertising/PR, legal, the Federal government, and pharma at the bottom of the ratings. Peoples’ highest ratings of industry in American occurred in 2017 when nearly 50% of people gave business a very or somewhat positive grade.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2018

President Trump made clear on the campaign trail and in his interview with TIME magazine as Person of the Year that pharmaceutical companies’ pricing needed to be reined in using government pressure.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2018

This is what happened to pharma stock prices on Friday after President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar outlined their new policies focusing on prescription drug prices. Seniors and government programs over-paying for drugs. The graph is the Nasdaq U.S.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

New president tapped to lead major hospital system in Denver area New president to lead opening of $650M hospital in Wheat Ridge Telehealth program offers support to forensic nurses Colorado Medicaid program settles lawsuit over lack of mental health care for children Colorado is trying to cut prescription drug prices.

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Hall Render

JUNE 23, 2023

Record-breaking settlement: Here’s why Bon Secours must pay the US government $36.5 ’ ‘We don’t need it all’: R.I.’s s largest hospital system may consolidate real estate portfolio Rhode Island company invests $8.4M Health system settles orthopedic False Claims allegations for $36.5M

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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. The study analyzed medical claims for millions of patients, both commercially insured and enrolled in Medicare. of family income.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2018

voters, across the three-party landscape, agree on two healthcare issues this year: coverage of pre-existing conditions, and lowering the consumer-facing costs of prescription drugs. This is the tactic that most Americans say could lower prescription drug prices. There’s growing evidence that a majority of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 26, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart illustrates that pharma pricing is a unifying force across older voters across the three political parties. consumers to import cheaper prescription drugs from other countries. While deep understanding of how U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

consumers have been supportive of government negotiation for drug pricing since well before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gallup-West Health Poll finds similar massive support for government negotiation specifically for COVID-19 treatment pricing, shown in the third table. bn to $32.8 bn to $9.9 bn for Medicaid.

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Health Populi

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. The biggest culprit/contributor to prescription drug prices? But their cost?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

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

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Health Populi

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. By party, nearly all Democrats agree with the negotiating power by the Feds, followed by 4 in 5 Independents and almost as many Republicans.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 12, 2022

First, it would give the federal government the ability to negotiate prices of some drugs purchased by Medicare beneficiaries, a tool that has long been opposed by the drug industry. Never before have we been able to negotiate prescription drug prices. Those prices would take effect in 2026.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The House passed its prescription drug bill earlier this month, named the Elijah E. The biggest known-unknown for 2020 is politics on the macro/national U.S. level, and then the tighter lens on health politics and health policy. This legislation passed with universal votes from Democrats plus two Republicans.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

While we have a divided government via split legislature, one winner in the 2018 midterm outcome is Medicaid. Another healthcare issue that should get traction in this legislative environment is prescription drug pricing. “We want to give President Trump what he said he wanted in the campaign,” Rep.

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

consumer dissatisfaction with drug prices — across political party identification. insured consumers’ perspectives on prescription drug pricing and the role of PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers). 9 in 10 insured Americans felt that prescriptions are more expensive in the U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 25, 2024

But Biden may be gathering momentum himself from an unexpected source: Drug industry lawsuits challenging his administration’s Medicare price negotiation plan could draw attention to Biden’s efforts to combat rising prescription drug prices, a major pocketbook issue for many voters.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Sanders, noting his call for big new government benefits like universal health care through Medicare for All and free college tuition. Senator Harris, too, mentioned government benefits like free college and Medicare for All as her health plan preference. Lester Holt began with Sen. ” Sen.

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The manufacturer sought to cover Medicare patients’ Part D cost-sharing obligations for the drug – which were estimated at approximately $13,000 per year – but the OIG said “no thanks,” and the Second Circuit has affirmed that outcome. The problem is, as stated before, the drug is expensive; an annual course costs $225,000.

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