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PBMs and insurers want your prescription money

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anti-kickback law that the drugmaker said prevented it from helping heart failure patients, many with low incomes, afford the medicine that costs $225,000 annually. For many, these coupons represent the difference between filling a prescription and going without lifesaving care, but there is a lot more here than just a co-pay coupon.

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A Prescription for Social Needs: Why Human Connection is Medicine

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Weaving companionship into health care as we would a blockbuster drug can help us circumvent expensive healthcare services like emergency department visits and hospitalizations.

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Value-based healthcare can help reduce costs

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Why haven’t more employers addressed the rising costs of employee healthcare with value-based care? This has to be upsetting to employers experiencing riding employee healthcare costs. The answer may be in offering a value-based healthcare model. Prescription drugs costs are just a small part of healthcare costs (11%).

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Disruption in healthcare is coming

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America’s profit-riddled healthcare-industrial complex consumes 17% of GDP, equivalent to $3.6trn a year. However, changes are slowly being implemented that could lower healthcare costs. Healthcare is ripe for disruption, but any attempt to disrupt our state of healthcare has been met with pushback and challenges.

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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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Disruption my ass! Tech companies want healthcare dollars

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SUMMARY: Amazon has set its sights on healthcare as it smells another profit opportunity. Google has signed an agreement with the Mayo clinic to help analyze data as they want a slice of healthcare dollars but what’s missing from these tech companies is “the human touch” that patients want.

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New Partnership Brings ‘Food Is Medicine’ Programs to Veterans

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The Rockefeller Foundation is funding two produce prescription pilot programs at VA healthcare systems in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas.

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