Today, we hear from the PBM trade association, pointing (or giving) the finger at medication makers for high prices.
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Harris Computer Systems, a large IT vendor, has announced that its health care group will acquire Iatris Systems, a provider of services to help hospitals maximize their IT systems (tells you something when companies make as much trying to help people figure out how to use their software as they do selling the software in the first place).
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180828005204/en/Harris-Healthcare-Group-Acquires-Iatric®-SystemsIn the frenzy over drug prices, all sides are releasing studies on who is to blame. Here is one sponsored by the drug manufacturers' trade association.
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CMS released the third annual evaluation of the Maryland all-payer, global budget reimbursement system.
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An interesting study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that removal of incentives relating to quality of care measures decreases performance.
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Seems obvious, but a Health Affairs study confirms that premiums on the insurance exchanges are higher when fewer plans participate.
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Here is a shock, a government program, Medicare, that wastes taxpayer dollars by paying more for care in one setting than another, in this case long-term care hospitals.
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Sempre Health gets a new round of financing, $8 million, for its software that interacts between health care providers and drug manufacturers to help adjust prices for behavioral health medications.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sempre-health-raises-8m-series-a-to-improve-access-to-medications-across-the-us-300703815.htmlAbout this Blog
The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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