Fierce Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

In a largely harmonious Senate Committee on Finance markup hearing, members supported bipartisan efforts to rein in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that they say operate without transparency to dr | The Senate wants to improve transparency surrounding pharmacy benefit managers and bring down prescription drug prices for the average person.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Prescryptive Health , a health tech company empowering consumers with prescription drug pricing data, has acquired Northwest Pharmacy Services Inc, a full-service, non-profit Pharmacy Benefit Manager. NWPS serves over 44,000 members in the Pacific Northwest.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This innovative approach will establish a transparent formula for drug cost and reimbursement, moving away from the traditional complex and opaque pricing structure.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2024

Prescription drug prices in the US are higher than in any other industrialized nation in the world. Convenience: The program connects patients with savings programs across over 70,000 pharmacies nationwide.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 7, 2022

New Reforms to Prescription Drug Pricing in the US: Opportunities and Challenges. Reforming Patient Cost Sharing for Cancer Medications in Medicare Part D. JAMA Oncol. 2022 Aug 4. Epub ahead of print. Hwang TJ, Kesselheim AS, Rome BN. 2022 Aug 19. Epub ahead of print. Lumpkin MM, Hamburg MA, Schultz WB, Sharfstein JM.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2023

Real-time Prescription Benefit High prescription drug prices create affordability challenges for patients and the health care system as a whole.

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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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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

What You Should Know: Waltz Health, a digital health company developing smarter, technology-enabled ways to price, distribute and prescribe medications, today announced its entry into the Medicare market.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2021

health citizens support attacking COVID-19 through testing, federal support for vaccines, expanding telehealth, expanding the ACA, and reforming (lowering) prescription drug prices. Ultimately, U.S. For the details, check out the post on the Medecision site.

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

PBMs determine the prescription drug prices that insurers pay and the payments that pharmacies receive. PBMs also negotiate rebates and discounts from drug manufacturers for the health insurance plans they work with. PBMs wear many hats.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

In the underlying Seventh Circuit cases, relators alleged that retail pharmacies had knowingly submitted false reports of their Usual and Customary (“U&C”) drug prices to the government for reimbursement under Medicare Part D and Medicaid, because the reports allegedly did not account for discounted drug prices offered through certain prescription (..)

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

"With prescription drug prices rising at every turn, patients need price transparency and the ability to discuss options with their doctors during office visits," Davis advised. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

For Tier 3, only applicable to plans with three or more tiers, the average copay is $65 and coinsurance 35%; and, For Tier 4, again for plans with 3 or more tiers, the average copay is $128 and coinsurance a 33% share (generally applicable to specialty drugs).

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GoodRx is a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of a telemedicine platform that includes a free-to-use website and mobile app that consumers can use to track prescription drug prices and obtain coupons that provide discounts on medications. The platform can also be used to arrange telehealth visits and access other health services.

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 7, 2023

However, CMS’s release of the Initial Rebate Guidances represents the agency’s first significant opportunity to submit substantive and specific input from the broader stakeholder community with regard to one of the most significant components of the prescription drug pricing changes of the IRA.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Entering 2024, we should be mindful that patients have been morphing into consumers, facing greater out-of-pocket costs and growing demand for omnichannel living and convenience, voting with their feet and clicks for, say, online appointments and access to health care which Zocdoc has pioneered for 16+ years.

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Innovaare Compliance

JUNE 28, 2024

These requirements include: Detailed Reporting: Plans must submit comprehensive data on prescription drug pricing, utilization, and patient outcomes. Price Transparency: Increased transparency in drug pricing to enable beneficiaries to make informed decisions.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 18, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Affording health care is a greater challenge for more Americans these days, the latest West Health-Gallup Health Care Affordability Index research revealed this week.

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Health Care Law Brief

JANUARY 19, 2022

On December 31, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark legislation to increase the transparency of prescription drug pricing and to establish requirements on pharmacy middlemen.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 24, 2023

Take Optum, which this week launched the Price Edge tool to help steer patients to the “lowest price generic medicines” according to the program’s press release. The price-comparison tool exclusively focused on generic drugs will be available to Optum Rx members.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

middle-class households finding that health care has returned to the #1 household fiscal concern ahead of inflation in 2023.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This latter point was emphasized in the survey noting that 71% of Americans said that drug prices were too high; 78% of people agreed that the government should be permitted to negotiate/regulate prescription drug prices.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

“We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors , a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. “But the federal crackdowns and guidelines have created collateral damage: patients left high and dry.”

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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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Designed to shed light on the true cost of drugs and to ensure that consumers and insurers aren’t being gouged, drug pricing transparency laws seek to level the playing field by delivering greater visibility into drug costs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The XY supply demand curve shown above from Trilliant’s analysis illustrates a government price ceiling shock to health care pricing.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

This data point gives further impetus to prescription drug price hearings in Congress and various proposals promulgated on Capitol Hill to address the cost of medicines. ” Cost continues to be top-of-mind for healthcare consumers, who largely blame pharma first in the Edelman research.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

“We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors , a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. “But the federal crackdowns and guidelines have created collateral damage: patients left high and dry.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

The top four health care issues consumers want Congress to prioritize in 2019 all deal with health care costs and access , for large majorities across political party ID: to lower prescription drug prices, to make sure insurers provide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, to ensure Medicare benefits aren’t cut, and to lower the overall (..)

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

All rebate payments will be deposited into the Medicare Prescription Drug Account in the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.

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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

Anyone with a December 2021 LG TV or newer can access affordable medications via the Capital Rx Advantage prescription savings card, downloaded directly from the comfort of their own homes via the Independa Health Hub (automatically on all LGTVs. It beats other popular discount cards on prices 80% of the time.

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 26, 2023

Over the past several months, the FTC followed through with its policy statement, bringing, and publicly settling, cases against prescription drug price tracking app GoodRx , online counseling service BetterHelp , and, most recently, ovulation tracking app Premom. Commissioner Phillips has since resigned.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Whitmer signs bills designed to lower prescription drug prices in Michigan. Northern Michigan health director quits, cites anger over mask mandates. Michigan aims to improve maternal and infant health. Michigan health care leaders discuss behavioral health reform solutions. McLaren is moving east.

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