MedCity News

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This bipartisan legislation will help create a more transparent process that allows patients and physicians to seek exceptions to step therapy protocol. Although it only applies to employer-sponsored health plans, the bill represents an important step towards reining in this troubling practice.

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MedCity News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Insurers and PBMs are increasingly implementing white-bagging policies, which require oncology practices to obtain physician-administered infusions and other medications from designated specialty pharmacies often owned by or affiliated with insurers and their PBMs.

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World of DTC Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2022

That information should be shared with HCPs and insurers to understand better the barriers and opportunities of treating patients. HCPs want to understand their patients better as insurers require better patient outcomes. Most physicians are trained in medicine and rely on their experiences to understand patients.

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World of DTC Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2022

Display is an incredibly low-effort way to spend your marketing budget, whether trying to reach physicians or patients. While some have seen luck with ePocrates, it’s been my experience that physicians don’t like ads when looking up medical information for patients.

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MedCity News

MARCH 3, 2023

Aledade — an independent primary care network focused on value-based care — struck a 10-year partnership with insurer Humana. Under the collaboration, Humana’s Medicare Advantage members will receive primary care from Aledade physicians using value-based arrangements.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 5, 2022

Marketing to doctors, physicians, surgeons, and other health care professionals can be extremely challenging, complicated, and expensive. Today's traditional and digital marketing technologies offer unprecedented opportunities to reach physicians and other health care professionals cost-effectively—and at scale.

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World of DTC Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Convenience is a crucial reason, but what do patients consider convenience versus what physicians call convenience? 83% believed the quality of the patient-physician communication was good. 83% believed the quality of the patient-physician communication was good. What about physicians? According to the AMA.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2021

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), in 2021, the average cost of employee health insurance premiums for family coverage increased by 4% from the previous year to $22,221. health insurers report billions as small providers face stress in the first quarter. The answer may be in offering a value-based healthcare model.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 1, 2022

Hospitals, physicians, and clinical care made up more than half of the total healthcare spending in 2019. Most Americans don’t have much of a choice for their insurance plan. Mor than 54 % get health insurance through their employer. residents pay more for each interaction.

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 17, 2022

But before the company can make Wegovy mainstream, it has to convince doctors to prescribe it and insurers and governments to pay for it. Wegovy’s monthly list price in the US is about $1,350, and some insurers are not yet covering the drug. Some 80 million obese Americans do not have insurers who will pay for Wegovy.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 11, 2022

Trust, for example, in physicians is still relatively high. Most patients completely trusted their physicians “to put their needs above all other considerations” (69%). Physician trust in the U.S. Physician trust in the U.S. While this is an excellent general overview, it does not apply to all healthcare.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 28, 2021

Aronne, an obesity specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine says “physicians need better education, and they need a different attitude toward people who have obesity”. Some health insurers require that HCP’s notify patients they are obese and that they are in danger of chronic conditions but that’s not enough.

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World of DTC Marketing

JUNE 3, 2021

Every year, more than any other factor, health care bankrupts Americans, even though 70% of them have insurance. Fraud drives up the cost of insurance, but insurance companies don’t pursue it as banks do credit card fraud. What is worse, 70% of those people had health insurance. 1 cause of bankruptcy for Americans.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 29, 2022

The current role in healthcare has been in treatment with drugs that lower A1C, but most physicians don’t have “the talk” about weight with patients, and in fact, there is a trend to tell HCPs not to weigh patients when they come into the office. What is the role of healthcare? This is unacceptable.

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Referral MD

MAY 30, 2023

Another benefit of working with outsourced physician billing services is that it will handle the complexities of insurance credentialing. Once an insurance credential is established, the medical biller must verify that the insurance information matches that on file with a patient’s health insurer.

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Celeritas

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Additionally, an administrator needs to be well-versed in the company’s policies, payment options, insurance matters, and government regulations. Many hospitals want to support their physicians in expanding their expertise by providing useful educational resources. Training and Engagement: .

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World of DTC Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

There is a physician discussion guide, but the key question is, can this discussion be had online, or does it require an office visit? I had a chance to talk to my local physicians group about the product/DTC and they had mixed emotions. Does TV DTC make sense to reach such a small audience?

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 11, 2021

According to a survey , close to 60% of physicians have lingering reservations about the quality of care they can provide remotely. Insurers are starting to embrace telehealth because it saves them money compared to in-office patient visits but HCP’s have valid concerns. What can pharma do?

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World of DTC Marketing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Physicians and insurers are rejecting Aduhelm because it should never have been approved in the first place. Thank health care professionals and insurers for not drinking any of Biogen’s Kool-Aid. More importantly, they felt the company should never have launched Aduhelm. Biogen is in trouble.

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 26, 2022

Telehealth has a future, but one could argue that physicians need to see patients firsthand to diagnose and evaluate patients. However, physicians would argue that they also need to see patients in person for many health issues. Quick Read: Amazon will dramatically expand its healthcare reach with its planned $3.9

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 5, 2022

The results of two surveys, one of primary care physicians and the other of patients, found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and think it is their responsibility to do so, they often don’t’ know what to say. This is where health insurers and pharma can help.

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Clarify Health

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our research reveals some exciting new information about the adoption of telehealth technology in the United States among commercially insured patients and provides early evidence of how the Covid-19 pandemic may have changed the provision and delivery of healthcare permanently.

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PM360

APRIL 7, 2023

Patient Pages: How Healthcare Costs Affect Insured Patients Today A new study shows an insured American with an employer-sponsored health insurance plan can expect to spend more than $320,000 (including insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs) during his/her adult lifetime. One in three (33%) U.S. While 20% of U.S.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

.” Public payers such as Medicare will not cover the drug, due to a existing rule concerning weight loss treatments, and only a few private insurers have explicitly said that they will cover it. Suppose you consume high energy, particularly fat and sugars, but do not burn off the energy through exercise and physical activity.

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World of DTC Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2022

More and more patients demand a level of service they want with the increased costs of health insurance premiums. Telehealth will find a niche for patients who need their doctors for simple health issues, but physicians still need to be taught how to recognize more severe problems that require an office visit.

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Referral MD

JUNE 21, 2023

The Challenges of Referral Management Referral management involves multiple stakeholders, including primary care physicians, specialists, care coordinators, and insurance providers. In this blog post, we will discuss how integrations are key to improving the referral management process.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

HCP’s and insurance companies too often fail to have a conversation about a patient’s weight and lack of exercise which in turn leads to more health problems and higher healthcare costs. I’m a big believer that patients who don’t exercise and are obese should pay higher health insurance rates.

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MedReps

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Often we’re lucky if we even get to see our physicians, let alone overcome their objections regarding insurance coverage and competitive claims. Physician Access. Every year, another physician’s office or hospital system eliminates representative visits and lunches. Insurance Coverage. Physician Apathy.

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World of DTC Marketing

APRIL 1, 2021

Many Americans think it’s OK to ask people with unhealthful lifestyles to pay higher insurance premiums and deductibles. The most trusted source of health information continues to be physicians, and pharma, along with insurers, should be supplying doctors with all types of patient information that can be used during office visits.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 11, 2023

BioMarin’s has signed the first contract with an insurer in Germany for Roctavian, its recently approved gene therapy for haemophilia A, as it tests out its outcomes-based agreement (OBA) reimbursement model in the EU.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Providers, administrators, health insurers and other healthcare-access gatekeepers can learn, train, change policies and remove barriers facing vulnerable groups so they can receive the long-overdue opportunity to pursue their best health and well-being.

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World of DTC Marketing

APRIL 20, 2022

Their biggest complaint is insurance companies’ preapprovals. They see this as an insurance company coming between them and their patients. They also want to understand better why some drugs require more co-pay if the data shows better patient outcomes.

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Clarivate

APRIL 24, 2023

Health systems will buy or establish an insurance plan to serve as an extension of their continuum of care, a means of directing referral streams to increase revenue and securing control over clinical and formulary decisions for patients. Vertical integration is common in the health systems sector.

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World of DTC Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

But the rest is shouldered by employers, insurance companies, and the government. There is currently a movement underway to give cards to nurses at the physician’s office so that patients aren’t weighed. Individuals bear some of these costs in medical expenses and lost wages, averaging $4,879 for women and $2,646 for men.

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PM360

AUGUST 24, 2023

A medication is available that can effectively treat Scott’s disease, but his physician is unwilling to prescribe it because he lacks confidence that Scott’s insurance will cover the drug. The other patient was insured through a small payer, and their decision not to cover the drug was an outlier rather than the norm.

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World of DTC Marketing

JUNE 27, 2021

But, will physicians tell patients that results depend on lifestyle intervention and a low-calorie diet? Wegovy’s most common side effects were gastrointestinal problems, including nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which 80% of patients reported, according to USA Today. We are an obese country, and diabetes is getting worse.

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PM360

JULY 26, 2022

Just 28% of surveyed LGBTQ+ patients report that preventive care is completely covered by their insurance compared with 48% of the total surveyed population. Furthermore, 14% of surveyed LGBTQ+ patients don’t have insurance at all, which is well above the 3% of all surveyed patients who fall into that category.

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