Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
ICER found GLP-1 drugs to be cost effective for treating obesity. If that is the case, why don’t more US payers cover the GLP-1 drugs? Clearly, one reason is the cost given the sheer volume of patients i nthe US that are obese; specifically, >40% of US adults are obese. However, a bigger issue may…
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Ingestible sensors are emerging as a promising frontier in gastroenterology, offering a minimally invasive way to monitor the gastrointestinal (GI) tract in real time. Instead of relying solely on endoscopy or colonoscopy—which are costly, invasive, and often avoided by patients—swallowable devices can capture biochemical signals such as gases and redox balance as they pass through…
How can we characterize the epidemiology and health care resource utilization of Americans with schizophrenia? This is the question a new paper in JMCP by Parks et al. (2026) aims to answer among patients enrolled in Medicaid. The authors use Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) Analytic Files from 2016 to 2022 and find that:…
As online pharmacies have grown in prominence, the German government aim to pass legislation to increase the profits of brick-and-mortar pharmacies in order to keep more physical locations available to Germans. Did it move sales from online to brick-and-mortar pharmacies? Is the law likely to keep brick-and-mortar pharmacies in business? These are the questions asked…
Professor Rick Dakan (Ringling College of Art and Design) and Professor Joseph Feller (University College Cork) developed the 4D Framework for AI Fluency. What is it? Delegation: Deciding on what work should be done by humans, what work should be done by AI, and how to distribute tasks between them. Includes understanding your goals, AI capabilities,…
Perhaps, if the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act becomes law. The bill just recently passed the House of Representatives. Newsweek summarizes the bill’s provisions as follows: The bill would increase Dependency and Indemnity Compensation benefits by 1.5 percent over two years. Those payments are provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to…
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The answer is provided by EFPIA’s annual WAIT indicator (press release, report). First, we see a large decrease in the share of pharmaceuticals fully availbity, drive by a small increase in reduced availability but a much larger increase in the number of drugs that only have a limited availability. Specifically, Historically full availability was the…
At least, it won’t be overturned by the US Supreme Court. Endpoints reports: The Supreme Court says it won’t wade into the pharma industry’s yearslong legal battle over Medicare drug price negotiations. The justices declined to review multiple cases brought by AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novo Nordisk, Novartis and Boehringer Ingelheim… The…