Fri.Nov 05, 2021

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“Game-changing” obesity drug over-promising?

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Wegovy is selling so well that it’s hard to get at pharmacies. It’s being positioned as an anti-obesity drug, but one study by Novo Nordisk has shown that people who stop taking Wegovy after a few months tend to regain much of their lost weight within a year. In addition, people who lost weight on Wegovy in clinical trials had nutritional counseling and had to stay on a strict diet.

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Patient Medical Data Marketplace | Prognos Health

Prognos Health

As a life science organization, you have several options when it comes to securing patient level real world data (RWD) to support your product launch or brand commercialization efforts. You can purchase directly from a data source, work with an aggregator, or use a digital patient medical data marketplace solution.

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The World Series

Rep-Lite

We live in Atlanta, so we are pulling for the Braves! Both teams are wildly talented and fun to watch play the game. Here is an interesting aspect: both teams have pulled players from their minor league programs to play in the World Series. So, one day a player is in Small Town, USA and the next he is playing in baseball’s championship, unbelievable!

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Patient-centric vs. source-centric RWD curation: Which is better?

Prognos Health

As a life science organization, you have several options when it comes to securing patient level real world data (RWD) to support your product launch or brand commercialization efforts. You can purchase directly from a data source, work with an aggregator, or use a digital patient medical data marketplace solution. The vast majority of options to purchase real world patient data via marketplace options are source-centric.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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Additional Reimbursement for Chronic Care Management and Principal Care Management Finalized in the 2022 MPFS

Nixon Gwilt Law

In the Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“MPFS”) for 2022 (the “Final Rule”) issued on November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) added five new CPT codes in the categories of Chronic Care Management (“CCM”) and Principal Care Management (“PCM”) and increased reimbursement for already existing codes in the same categories.

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Telehealth in the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Audio-Only Telehealth for Mental Health Made Permanent, and CMS Punts on Remote Direct Supervision

Nixon Gwilt Law

On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) finalized the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2022 (the “Final 2022 MPFS” or the “Final Rule”). As we noted in our July article discussing the Proposed 2022 MPFS , CMS made some significant proposed changes to allow for audio-only telehealth in some limited circumstances.