Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
ADHD, financial distress and suicide. Will approval of ‘so-so’ COVID-19 vaccine preclude development of a better one? International price index: Lessons from Europe COVID and homelessness. Explaining variation in wait times by socioeconomic status
That is the title of my article in MedCityNews. I discuss the evolution of value measurement, digital medicine, and the importance of reducing inequality. Below is an excerpt: While efficacy, safety and cost still form the core of a treatment’s value, how a treatment is administered is now becoming of primary importance in a world…
From the Nobel Prize website: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This technology has had a revolutionary impact on the life sciences, is contributing to new cancer…
Prior authorization is a requirement that health plans require physicians to obtain plan approval in order to prescribe a patient a given medication. Prior authorizations may be put in place to insure medications are not used inappropriately or for payers to try to reduce cost. While prior authorization may help save money, delays in the…
Created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has funded a wide variety of research comparing different treatments to one another. One thing PCORI was forbidden from funding, however, was cost-effectiveness analyses. Section 1181 of the Social Security Act, however, has expanded the scope of the types of…
Last month, the US Food and Drug Administration published a final rule providing guidance for allowing drug importation from Canada. The drugs have to be approved by the Government of Canada’s Health Canada’s Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB) and can be imported by States or Indian Tribes, or in certain circumstances by pharmacists or…
Specialist compensation and ACO performance Racism in health services research. FDA updates Sentinel System website. Drone sanitation. What if the Supreme Court kills Obamacare?
Check out my interview on the Redeeming Value podcast with Brian Reid. PRECISIONheor Vice President Jason Shafrin pops in to talk about the Institute of Clinical and Economic Review and the broader question of where the group’s influence is centered and the elements of ICER reports that stakeholders are paying attention to. Do listen to…
Novartis raised EUR 1.85 billion euros of funds through a bond sale earlier this month. A bond sale by a large multinational corporation is not news. What is news is the type of bonds they were: sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs). From the Novartis press release: The new bond is the first of its kind in the…
Earlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave an update to its federal budget projections between 2020 and 2030. As expected, things look grim for 2020. CBO projects a federal budget deficit of $3.3 trillion in 2020, more than triple the shortfall recorded in 2019. That increase is mostly the result of the economic…