At one call center in the Philippines, workers help Americans with diabetes or neurological conditions troubleshoot devices that monitor their health. Sometimes they get pressing calls: elderly patients who are alone and experiencing a medical emergency. “That’s not part of the job of our employees or our tech supports,” said Ruth Elio, an occupational nurse…
By OWEN TRIPP Creating a healthcare experience that builds trust and delivers value to people and purchasers isn’t a quick fix, but it’s the only way to reverse the downward spiral of high costs and poor outcomes Entrepreneurs like to say the U.S. healthcare system is “broken,” usually right before they explain how they intend…
Likely ‘no‘. While CMS can consider drug prices as part of IRA’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation, it is limited to considering only U.S. market data. Here is an excerpt from the IRA text: For purposes of negotiating the maximum fair price of a selected drug under this part with the manufacturer of the drug, the…
That is the title of my recent publication with co-authors Andrea Chung, Sachin Vadgama, Kristen Hurley, Miguel-Angel Perales, Leonard Clarkson Alsfeld, Sanjana Muthukrishnan and Anik R Patel, Gunjan L Shah, Richard T Maziarz. The abstract is below. CAR T-cell therapy has shown curative potential for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and other malignancies,…
CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Page Campbell’s doctor recommended she try an injectable prescription drug called Wegovy to lose weight before scheduling bariatric surgery, she readily agreed. “I’ve struggled with my weight for so long,” said Campbell, 40, a single mother of two. “I’m not opposed to trying anything.” In early April, about four weeks after…
Since President Donald Trump released his 2026 budget blueprint in early May, calling for $163 billion in federal spending cuts, much of the attention has focused on his slashing of foreign aid and boosting of border security. But the proposal also holds important clues — amid some mixed messages — about the administration’s approach to…
By MATTHEW HOLT It was not so long ago that you could create one of those maps of health care IT or digital health and be roughly right. I did it myself back in the Health 2.0 days, including the old sub categories of the “Rebel Alliance of New Provider Technologies” and the “Frontier of…
A press release from CMS today provides the answer: [The Department of Health and Human Services] HHS expects each manufacturer to commit to aligning US pricing for all brand products across all markets that do not currently have generic or biosimilar competition with the lowest price of a set of economic peer countries. The MFN…
Health care has proved a vulnerable target for the firehose of cuts and policy changes President Donald Trump ordered in the name of reducing waste and improving efficiency. But most of the impact isn’t as tangible as, say, higher egg prices at the grocery store. One thing experts from a wide range of fields, from…
Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.” President Donald Trump, in a May 11 post on Truth Social President Donald Trump expressed high hopes for an executive order to reduce drug prices. On May 11, the day before he held a White House event to sign the executive order,…