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New price transparency rules set by the government are an opportunity to save money. Not for hospitals, not for payers, but for you and me. Isn’t that a nice change
Your simple act of walking into a primary care office sets off a series of events orchestrated by unseen conductors. Is this a good thing?
The process used to be simple; your primary care physician owned her own practice, and referred you to other clinical sites when she thought it best for your care. This might be one of the local hospital clinics, or an academic center for specialist care. Formularies have always been, and probably always will be, a restriction on drug prescribing. But for both referral patterns and prescribing autonomy, primary care decisions are being influenced by new conductors acting behind the scenes. Here are several examples:
These scenarios are not necessarily bad. They are simply different solutions to the rising cost of healthcare. If your health can be maintained at the lowest levels of service, that is a benefit to all stakeholders, including you. But do you know who is truly orchestrating your care? The conductor is not always the physician standing in front of you.
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New price transparency rules set by the government are an opportunity to save money. Not for hospitals, not for payers, but for you and me. Isn’t that a nice change
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have received a lot of negative publicity lately. Here is some more: A new whistleblower lawsuit has opened another door that reveals more skeletons in the
and its impact on pharma Physicians who own their own practices should feel honored! They are the focus of an ongoing tug-of-war between the biggest stakeholders in the healthcare industry.
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