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Sorry, the Inflation Bill won’t lower healthcare costs

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The Inflation Reduction Act’s health insurance subsidies and drug pricing reforms will improve health care affordability for Americans but won’t do a damn thing for our overall healthcare costs, which will keep rising. A staggering 85% of healthcare costs in the U.S. Finally, there are healthcare administrative costs.

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The era of “consumer healthcare”?

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“Unicorns” are competing with incumbent healthcare companies and technology giants to make people better and prevent them from getting ill in the first place. The transformation to “consumer healthcare” will be evolutionary, not revolutionary. Here is a summary of the article from The Economist.

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Corporations: “get healthcare costs under control”

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SUMMARY: A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Purchaser Business Group on Health shows signs that corporate executives might be warming to the idea of government getting more involved to rein in the excesses of the healthcare system. It’s affecting their bottom lines, and they won’t stand for that.

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The rise of prescription drug abuse and drug diversion

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As prescription drug abuse has grown in the US and Europe, the diversion of such treatments from legitimate sources has also increased. Drug diversion is the channelling of prescription drugs from a medical source into the illegal market. Why drug diversion represents a challenge.

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New FDA head needs to examine the accelerated approval program

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The analysis focused on Medicare Part B and Part D spending — which covers outpatient medical care and prescription drugs, respectively, — in 2017, 2018 and 2019, the researchers said. Between 2011 and 2018, cumulative spending on 44 FDA-approved oral targeted therapy drugs was $3.5

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PM360 2022 Trailblazer Awards Supplier/Vendor of the Year GoodRx

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GoodRx’s mission is to provide Americans—regardless of income or insurance status—the knowledge, choice, and care they need to stay healthy by improving access to affordable healthcare. Trusted by over 100 million patients and 825,000 providers, GoodRx ranks #1 in consumer trust of digital healthcare brands. Innovation.

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Voice is Becoming the Loudest Tool in the Exam Room

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The line from the 2011 Pixar “Cars” sequel (trust me, as a parent of two, I have seen it countless times) points to the practical implication for voice technology. While this sort of innovation might not be a surprise in the automotive category, its breadth of functional benefits for patients and healthcare providers (HCPs) might be.