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The New Drug Companies Aren’t Drug Companies At All

Health Populi

Launched in January 2018, Civica Rx started with pent-up demand for these medicines: nine months after launching, one-third of American hospitals had contacted the organization interested in accessing the generic drugs that Civica Rx was focused on supplying. GNS is a drug discovery research company in precision medicine.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. Microsoft down 4 percentage points. Amazon down 8 points. Apple down 7 points.

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The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital Finances

Health Populi

The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%. Only 17% of that amount was collected falling between $7,501 and $10,000, Crowe calculated.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

In OCR’s last round of HIPAA audits in 2016 and 2017, most audited entities were not fully compliant with this important Security Rule provision, as they had either failed to conduct a HIPAA-compliant risk analysis, had not conducted one frequently enough, or their risk analyses were not comprehensive and/or accurate.

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The Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA

Health Populi

Among Scott’s many insightful comments, one really resonated with me and my health-economics mindset: on the growing presence of value-based insurance design in the U.S. Value-based insurance design is the holy grail, at least for new drugs,” Nicholas was quoted in the New York Times.

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Growing Support for Medicare for All – But Do People Really Understand What It Means?

Health Populi

In fact, Democrats’ keen concern for several health care issues — at the top of that list, prescription drug prices, guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions, and women’s health care access — drove many voters to the polls in the 2018 mid-term elections. and $460.50

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Estimates of COVID-19 Medical Costs in the US: $20K for inpatient stay, $1300 OOP costs

Health Populi

In the midst of growing inpatient admissions and test results for COVID-19, Congress is working as I write this post to finalize a round of legislation to help Americans with the costs-of-living and (hopefully) health care in a national, mandated, clarifying way. This is based on models for treating pneumonia in U.S.