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Pharma dodges a bullet, for now

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Medicare’s innovation center may be the best avenue for lowering drug costs if provisions empowering government price negotiation don’t’ make it into a sweeping domestic spending package. For now, drug companies are free to overcharge Medicare for prescription drugs. Click to Tweet.

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Value-based healthcare can help reduce costs

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This means that primary, specialty, and acute care are integrated and that healthcare providers work as a networked team to deliver the best-coordinated care. For example, treatment plans may require the contributions of pharmacists, behavioral health providers, social services, specialists, and more.

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Dr B raises $8m for telehealth service to deliver COVID antivirals

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The cash injection will be used to launch a telehealth service that promises to provide prescriptions and services to patients regardless of their ability to pay. The “visitless prescription” service will be available for free for people with low incomes, according to Dr B’s website.

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America’s healthcare costs are in deep crisis

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SUMMARY: The media loves to blame pharma companies for high healthcare costs, but unless we start to invest in healthy lifestyles, we’re headed for a healthcare crisis the likes of which we have never experienced. Forget the fact that prescription drugs only account for $.10 The explanation of why is actually quite simple.

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Clarify Health Launches Real-World Evidence on Health Disparities

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With this launch, its life sciences products draw upon an expanded and extensive set of individual-level, de-identified SDoH factors, which are linked together with government and commercial claims, clinical, and prescription and dispensing data.

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A Medical Sales Rep's Guide to Malaysia's Budget 2023

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billion allocated to the Health Ministry, which may indicate an increase in funding and potential opportunities for partnerships or collaborations with healthcare providers and organizations. The government's focus on improving and upgrading hospitals, which may present opportunities to provide medical equipment and supplies.

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What health plans should know about healthcare price transparency

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No surprise billing: A breakdown of the key requirements and deadlines in the No Surprises Act The No Surprises Act aims to protect patients from receiving “surprise” (or unexpected) medical bills from a healthcare provider or facility after inadvertently receiving care from an out-of-network provider.