Payers and targeted therapy in oncology

I was quoted in a recent article in Pharmaceutical Technology titled “Targeted therapies to join chemo as oncology treatment backbone“. An excerpt is below: Though payers could theoretically prioritise chemotherapy over the use of targeted treatments due to their lower price, Jason Shafrin, senior managing director of FTI’s Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy, notes…

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Natalie Schneider, Fort Health

Natalie Schneider is CEO of Fort Health, a relatively new entrant into the children’s mental health market. Fort Health’s modus operandi is to partner with (i.e. market via) pediatricians to recruit patients. They are delivering integrated care and something called collaborative care…a newer model that has more frequent and shorter interventions and is more affordable….

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Slaying The Dragon

By MIKE MAGEE The date was June 9, 1954. This was over a year after Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had assumed the chairmanship of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The history shows that he had  “rocketed to public attention in 1950 with his allegations that hundreds of Communists had infiltrated the State Department…

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What RFK Jr. Might Face in His Nomination Hearings This Week

President Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences. Two Senate committees will question Kennedy this week on how his disproven views of science and medicine qualify him to run the $1.7 trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system….

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