A large health plan's program in incentivize doctors to use lower-cost oncology drugs shows little results.
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IQVIA gives us its annual forecasting on prescription drug use for the next few years.
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Health at Scale gets a weighty $16 million round of financing, all coming from the Optum division of UnitedHealth, to fund its artificial intelligence software to match patients with treatments.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/17/healthatscale-lands-16m-series-a-to-use-machine-learning-for-more-precise-healthcare/Financial giant JP Morgan is acquiring InstaMed, which helps providers collect cost-sharing amounts from patients and coordinates payments with insurers. The price is supposedly around $500 million.
https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/jpmorgan-chase-acquires-healthcare-payments-fintech-instamed/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=72811050&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8zwAN8qxr5Xs3xJZhJhHqYiA5KWkIRpChLrh7aSH4w0LRw-eX1NzetwWQK2M2mzE4jZKXEiQUIPufK0OlP9tdE5pLwVwhSMzgWUXjZopG6FEKZDPU&_hsmi=72811050A brief from the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker group examines deductible trends.
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Using international reference pricing for drugs would save the United States a lot of money.
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