THCB Gang Episode 146, Tuesday November 26

Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Tuesday November 26 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); and a new guest from Marsh McLennan, Employee Benefits Consultant Ryan Koo (@RyanKoo). You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen…

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The Crawfish Chronicles: An NIH Fixed Cost Cap Parable

By GREGROY HOPSON T-Maître Pierre’s Family Restaurant was a Louisiana institution. The kind of place where generations gathered over steaming mountains of boiled crawfish, spicy corn, and seasoned potatoes. A place where Clifton Chenier’s Louisiana Blues & Zydeco played in the background and the waitstaff wore starched white shirts with bright-colored bow ties. The walls…

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Optum Rx Invokes Open Meetings Law To Fight Kentucky Counties on Opioid Suits

UnitedHealth Group’s multibillion-dollar pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, is suing five Kentucky counties in an attempt to force them out of national opioid litigation against the company. Pharmacy benefit managers, often called PBMs, act as middlemen that negotiate prescription drug prices between drug companies, insurance plans, and pharmacies. Some lawyers and advocates say PBMs helped…

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How User-Generated Content is Transforming Pharma Insights on the Patient Experience

[Sponsored] LiveWorld’s white paper, Turning UGC into Insight: The Untapped Value in Pharma Conversations, identifies how moderated conversations become an insight pipeline, and what recurring questions, misinformation themes, and sentiment shifts actually signal. The post How User-Generated Content is Transforming Pharma Insights on the Patient Experience appeared first on MedCity News.

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