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Medicare savings won’t make a dent in healthcare costs

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices is popular with voters because the media has been focused on the high price of some drugs, but this measure won’t lead to lower healthcare costs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that Medicare fee-for-service COVID-19 hospitalizations average $24,033.

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STAT+: Medicare will take R&D costs, effectiveness into account when it negotiates drug prices. But studies show that doesn’t affect prices

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By law, Medicare will have to take a medication’s efficacy and its research and development costs into account when it starts to negotiate drug prices — but recent research shows pharma companies ignore those factors when they pick prices for their products. But neither factor has much effect, the studies concluded.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: New York officials press pharmacy chains over abortion pill; Sanders pushes bill for $20 insulin cap

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Enjoy, and see you soon … By law, Medicare will have to take a medication’s efficacy and its research and development costs into account when it starts to negotiate drug prices — but recent research shows pharma companies ignore those factors when they pick prices for their products , STAT explains.  Two But be safe.

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Grand Rounds October 20, 2023: A National Initiative to Eliminate Hepatitis C in the United States – Why This Matters to Clinical Trialists (Rachael L. Fleurence, PhD, MSc; Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

point of care diagnostic tests, provide broad access to curative Hepatitis C medications with a national subscription model, with Medicare co-pay assistance and commercial insurance coverage. To address this crisis, the NIH is embarking on a National Initiative on Hepatitis C. The initiative would bring to the U.S.

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Grand Rounds May 12, 2023: Design and Pragmatic Trial of COACH: A Patient Portal/EHR Information System for Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Hypertension (Richelle J. Koopman, MD, MS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

There are mechanisms to bill for home blood pressure monitoring for Medicare. Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds May 12, 2023: Design and Pragmatic Trial of COACH: A Patient Portal/EHR Information System for Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Hypertension (Richelle J. There is billing potential here.

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Grand Rounds September 23, 2022: Effect Of An Intensive Nurse Home Visiting Program On Adverse Birth Outcomes In A Medicaid-Eligible Population (Margaret McConnell, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

This trial took place in South Carolina at a time when Medicare was thinking about how to improve outcomes and if expanding home nursing services could improve health outcomes. Department of Global Health and Population. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Randomized controlled trial. Key Points. pctGR, @Collaboratory1.

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The FDA and Aduhelm: WTF?

World of DTC Marketing

The story of how a drug that’s never even been proven to work is now poised to rake in billions of dollars for its manufacturer, impose needless suffering on millions of families, and destabilize Medicare and Medicaid in the process, goes well beyond the failures of what should be the toughest regulatory body of the U.S. government.

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