Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

Health plan cost trend dramatically fell in 2022, thereafter rebounding as patients returned to medical care after a period of “medical distancing,” avoiding in-person care whether in hospital outpatient departments or doctors’ offices.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

There was a sort of two-year hiatus in health care cost inflation driven largely by patients avoiding preventive screenings and in-person visits and stays in hospitals and clinics. That’s history. More patients are coming back to health care, abandoning their personal health mitigation strategy of “medical distancing.”

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 24, 2023

” These two programs come from outside of the legacy health care system of so-called incumbents — hospitals, health systems, health insurance — leveraging two brand-names beloved to many consumers for convenience, price transparency, and sheer cost. First, check out Amazon Pharmacy’s RxPass.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

That sandbox includes health care providers and hospitals, physicians and ambulatory care sites, pharma and medical device companies, and indeed — patients, as well, who can improve in healthier lifestyles, self-care, and addressing risk factors under personal control when possible.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case. in fact devotes fewer hospital beds, physicians and nurses to health care delivery compared with other countries. On the supply side, the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

That’s a summary of the demand side of the trends on the health economy which serve up huge challenges for legacy health care stakeholders: hospitals and health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and medical tech companies, and clinicians. That level of service and price satisfaction builds health consumers’ loyalty and trust.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The executive order directs the Treasury and Labor departments and HHS to ensure hospitals and insurers "disclose actual prices, not estimates," and take action to make prices comparable across hospitals and insurers, including prescription drug prices.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pricing failure as a waste-factor accounted for nearly another third of total waste in U.S. This challenge covers hospital-acquired conditions and adverse events, clinician-related inefficiency, and lack of adoption of preventive care practices like administering vaccines and addressing obesity and hypertension. health care.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

48 hospitals on Forbes’ list of best employers. Hospitals plead with Congress to tackle workforce shortages. Hospitals urge HHS to fix, not end, direct contracting model. Only 14% of Hospitals Met Price Transparency Rule Compliance. . How a Small Alabama Company Fueled Private Equity’s Push Into Hospitals.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

342 hospitals have received price transparency noncompliance notices from CMS. The 55 hospitals penalized by Medicare 8 years straight over patient complications. Counties with the lowest hospital bed capacity in Alabama. Cardiac Rehab program at Alaska Regional Hospital builds confidence in patients.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2021

As such, the debate on prescription drug pricing in the U.S. is heating up, with President Biden mentioning the scenario of Medicare negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical manufacturers in his latest speech measuring progress at 100 days in the White House.

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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Hall Render

JULY 22, 2022

Omicron variant fueling uptick in Alabama COVID-19 hospitalizations. Five leading children’s hospitals secure $29M in federal funding to enhance future pandemic readiness. Hospital holds 2nd CEO candidate meet and greet: Dennis Welsh talks the future of Juneau’s health care community. CALIFORNIA.

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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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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

to Develop Wearable Blood Loss Detector An Academic Lifeline for Rural Hospitals CHI St. to Develop Wearable Blood Loss Detector An Academic Lifeline for Rural Hospitals CHI St.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I show this market basket of the four sectors as health consumers look for services — say, vaccinations, primary care, over-the-counter medicines, health and wellness products, fitness and wearable technology — beyond doctors’ offices, hospitals, clinics, and health plans.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 3, 2025

million for fraud, kickback scheme HHS launches campaign against vaccine misinformation HHS proposes HIPAA updates: 6 notes HHS Proposes Strengthened HIPAA Security Rule Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealth Group and other cyberattacks: the most popular technology stories of 2024 Medicare’s $2K drug cap starts Jan.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. The World Health Organization called for “prescribing” clean air for the world’s children, 90% of whom were breathing toxic air in 2018.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

US flu hospitalization rate highest its been since 2009 swine flu pandemic, experts say. Staffing shortages biggest issue facing Alabama hospitals. State’s rural hospitals need help: What a $7.3M IHS should pay Arizona tribal hospital $17.4M, HHS says. South Arkansas Awaits $55 Million Hospital. CONNECTICUT.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them? NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B

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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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Hall Render

JUNE 23, 2023

voters could clamp down on pay for hospital executives California health system uses philanthropists’ gifts to launch innovation fund Probe into California hospital unearths patient safety concerns Wrong family notified after man dies at SF hospital California Gov.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As Amazon and other entrants apply their innovative approaches and technologies into American healthcare, consumers are expecting more streamlining, convenience, and lower (and transparent) prices. The legacy healthcare system — hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — haven’t delivered on that expectation.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2018

In the past year, it’s been pricing, not volume, that’s drive medicines price growth in America, as I explained here in Health Populi. A new report from The Commonwealth Fund was published today as I was uploading this post about healthcare prices in the U.S. continuing to drive up healthcare spending.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

The New England Journal of Medicine published an essay on June 4, 2020, titled, Specialty Drugs–A Distinctly American Phenomenon (my apologies–the article is behind the NEJM paywall). Furthermore, net spending on these expensive “specialty drugs” increased from $8.7 bn to $32.8 bn to $9.9 bn for Medicaid.

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Medval Compliance Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Transparency in healthcare has historically been defined as the “making available to the public, in a reliable, and understandable manner, information on the health care system’s quality, efficiency and consumer experience with care, which includes price and quality data, so as to influence the behavior of patients.” [1] Tracking the Rollout.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

Another unifying health care issue is prescription drug prices, which KFF has tracked for several years. Most voters across party have told previous KFF polls they believe in more government regulation or intervention on drug costs.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2018

Credit scores, payment plans for hospital stays and specialty drugs, and the expanding financial risk due to high-deductibles all play into the patient-as-payor and trust. These financial and trust-risks impact Republicans and Democrats alike.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

NATIONAL 9 health systems working with Amazon, Microsoft, Apple 293 hospitals at immediate risk of closure AHA chair-elect participates in CEO roundtable on rural health care crisis AHA report demonstrates benefits of 340B program AHA Urges OCR to Suspend or Amend Online Tracking Guidance AMA and others launch collective call for health equity in Rise (..)

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The bar chart shows the three areas garnering majority support across the Dems and GOP — for raising the minimum age to buy semiautomatic firearms from 18 to 21; requiring gun buyers to wait five days before receiving the gun; and, allowing guns to be temporarily seized form people whom judges deem dangerous.

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Jane Sarashon

AUGUST 26, 2024

“Voter registration in hospitals is the new frontier in health care.” The story goes that, “A pair of nurses with a strong commitment to upholding the right to vote and an amazing determination not to take no for an answer enabled dozens of hospitalized patients to participate in the American electoral system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services. my alma mater) and colleagues track the growth of consumer-facing digital health tools and initiatives leading to consumers’ engagement with websites and apps.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2019

In fact, Democrats’ keen concern for several health care issues — at the top of that list, prescription drug prices, guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions, and women’s health care access — drove many voters to the polls in the 2018 mid-term elections. Among the 500 U.S. and $460.50 a month.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

And there’s very little bidding on drugs.” ” Remember that prescription drug spending continues to hover around one-tenth of overall U.S. A move to re-align prescription drug prices will be welcomed across the political spectrum as Big Pharma continues to take the bulk of the blame for rising healthcare costs.

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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].

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

They take their child the ER, and sit outside of the hospital looking at the sliding glass doors with their hand on their child’s forehead. ” 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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