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Drug Utilization Under Managed Medicaid
Cash-strapped states are shifting patients from traditional fee-for-service Medicaid coverage to managed Medicaid plans. The IMS Institute of Healthcare Informatics took an early look at how this trend effects prescription drug utilization.
Posted in Strategy Also tagged CMS, Congress, drug utilization, economic stimulus, fee-for-service, IMS Health, managed Medicaid, States Leave a comment
State Surprises as Obamacare Starts Up
by Tom Norton
This past week or so, with Obamacare’s start up less than a year away, we have been treated to several entertaining vignettes as the nation’s governors begin to wrestle with the realities of the new healthcare law.
Posted in Guest Blog, Legal, Strategy, healthcare, leadership Also tagged ACA, health exchanges, Health Reform, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Medicare, Obamacare, States Leave a comment
Pharma Pricing Top Target for Medicare Cutbacks
In the dog-eat-dog world of federal deficit reduction, there seems to be one health-related spending cut with broad bi-partisan support: require drug companies to give the federal government “a better deal on medications for low-income people on Medicare.” Nearly 70% of respondents back this strategy, according to a survey sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation [...]
Posted in healthcare, pricing Also tagged Congress, Harvard School of Public Health, health exchanges, Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicare, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, survey 2 Comments
Sequestration: What Does it Mean for Pharma?
You may have read horror stories about the looming Sequestration Act, but what exactly is it? And what does it mean for US pharma? Tom Norton reports.
Lurking in the shadows of the US General Elections is something called The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2011. Of late, you may have read the occasional article that breathlessly [...]
Posted in Guest Blog, Regulatory Also tagged FDA, Medicare, National Instittutes of Health, sequestration, Sequestration Act, US election 2 Comments
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