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American healthcare is unsustainable

World of DTC Marketing

In Gallup’s 2019 survey of potentially worrisome issues among Americans, healthcare topped the list for the fifth straight year. Most other developed countries control costs, in part, by having the government play a stronger role in negotiating prices for healthcare. Healthcare Practices Defensive Medicine.

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Heal’s Co-Founders Launch New Startup to Help Older Patients & Their Caregivers

MedCity News

Renee Dua and Nick Desai —the husband-and-wife duo who founded physician house call company Heal in 2014 — have launched another healthcare startup.

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Unexpected Factors when Selling to Physicians

Scott’s Directories

Some factors have hindered the ease of accessibility to physicians to make direct sales. And a large majority of physicians are not in the position to accept products and services as there is a decreasing amount of independent practices. percent) of patient care physicians had an ownership stake in their practice (Exhibit 1).

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How Value Based Health Care Will Impact Medical Sales

Spotio

The move from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement is a sea change for the healthcare industry. They cite a 24% increase in drug costs per hospital admission in 2014 and a 12% increase in 2015. Home healthcare is not new. Many are predicting a great expansion in the home healthcare field in the coming year.

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PhRMA lies to protect pharma profits

World of DTC Marketing

Data were mainly accessible for smaller firms, products in some therapeutic regions, orphan drugs, first-in-class drugs, therapeutic agents that received accelerated approval, and products between 2014 and 2018. It also raises healthcare costs for public and private insurers alike. In my opinion, PhRMA has zero credibility.

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Biogen’s $900 million settlement signals scrutiny on speaker fees

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2009, former Biogen employee Michael Bawduniak filed a lawsuit claiming that Biogen had violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by providing millions of dollars to healthcare providers (HCPs) as an incentive to prescribe three of its multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs.

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Cala® Launches The Cala kIQ™ System, Offering Meaningful Tremor Relief for Patients With Essential Tremor and Now Parkinson’s Disease

Legacy MEDSearch

The Cala kIQ System empowers patients and physicians by providing an on-demand, comfortable, at-home therapy for ease of use and management of action hand tremors. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by leading investors in both healthcare and technology.