Most payers have outcomes-based contracts with PBM About 58% of payers had at least one outcomes-based drug contract with a PBM in 2022, according to an Avalere Health survey. Of the payers that had at least one outcomes-based contract, over…
New drug shortages skyrocketing Drug shortages are growing dramatically. For example, children's flu medications, common antibiotics, and ADHD treatments are getting harder to buy, according to a report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. It finds that the…
Practice Transformation Getting the medication information right Do you have the information you need to get the medications right? Pharmaceutical companies’ medical information professionals can be a valuable resource. The non-profit phactMI represents MI professionals across the pharmaceutical industry; it…
Practice Transformation February full of deals Last week, UnitedHealth Group closed its $5.4 billion acquisition of the home health and hospice provider LHC Group. LHC will be folded into Optum supporting UnitedHealth’s plan to make Optum the entry point for…
Practice Transformation Look out, drug chains: Mark Cuban has only just begun Mark Cuban wants to lower drug prices even further and expand his online pharmacy's customer base. These plans could pose a major threat to CVS and Walgreens, TheStreet reports. And…
Practice Transformation MyChart message fees passed on to patient? Cleveland Clinic began billing for certain Epic MyChart messages in November; now, at least seven other health systems have followed suit. But, as Becker’s Hospital Review reports, what remains uncertain is how long…
Practice Transformation Americans give health care cost and equity low scores A plurality of Americans gives the U.S. health care system overall a poor or failing grade, and most rank affordability and equity the same way, according to the West Health-Gallup…
Practice Transformation Ads: direct consumer to prescriber It’s not only patients and providers who benefit from online prescribing; so do a growing number of drug companies. They connect people scrolling their sites with a virtual prescriber. This “powerful mashup” of…
Practice Transformation AMA to take on senior polypharmacy Following up on recommendations from the AMA Senior Physicians Section, AMA delegates recently adopted “Reducing Polypharmacy as a Significant Contributor to Senior Morbidity.” It directs the AMA to work with appropriate stakeholders such…
Practice Transformation Team-based care begins with the patient In a Pharmacy Times interview, Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, MACP, FRCP, Executive Physician Advisor, GTMRx Institute, discussed the importance of collaboration among physicians, other clinicians and pharmacists in delivering comprehensive medication management. “It starts with…
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