World of DTC Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2022

When they say compare prescription drug prices, they mean the cost of a prescription if you aren’t using insurance. Pharmacists have to reverse the billing they have done, enter the information like an insurance card, rebill, and print new paperwork. And advertising? It doesn’t work that way.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

Under the bill proposed, Medicare beneficiaries and those insured through private plans would pay no more than $35 for a 30-day insulin prescription, or the lesser of $35 or 25% of the plan’s negotiated price for a 30-day prescription. Even with health insurance, some people pay up to $1,000 a month for insulin.

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World of DTC Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2022

More and more patients demand a level of service they want with the increased costs of health insurance premiums. 1ne: The value proposition of prescription drugs still outweighs potential side effects – Wegovy’s demand quickly exceeded supply after the FDA approved once-weekly semaglutide injections.

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 26, 2022

Telehealth has a future, but one could argue that physicians need to see patients firsthand to diagnose and evaluate patients. ” At its core is an app and website that members can use to book appointments, track health records and renew prescriptions. 3hree: What does this mean for patient data?

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2021

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), in 2021, the average cost of employee health insurance premiums for family coverage increased by 4% from the previous year to $22,221. health insurers report billions as small providers face stress in the first quarter. The answer may be in offering a value-based healthcare model.

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World of DTC Marketing

APRIL 21, 2021

QUICK READ: There is so much money in healthcare that every company wants their share even if patients get hurt. health plan for seniors in Florida improperly collected nearly $200 million in 2015 by overstating how sick some patients were, according to a new federal audit, which seeks to claw back the money. A Humana Inc.

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Referral MD

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Prior authorization is a pivotal component of healthcare, bridging the relationship between patients, healthcare providers, and insurance companies. While a physician may determine a treatment plan, they must get the insurers green light to ensure coverage. Prescription drugs with high misuse potential.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Among the 26% of respondents who talked to a health care provider about a specific prescription drug they saw advertised, 16% said they received a prescription for the advertised drug. Online research is used to evaluate new prescription drugs. Is it covered by my insurance? What are other patients saying about it?

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 17, 2022

But before the company can make Wegovy mainstream, it has to convince doctors to prescribe it and insurers and governments to pay for it. It has to persuade patients to sign up for some heinous side effects. When patients stop taking Wegovy, their appetite returns within weeks, and they pack on weight. Then there is the price.

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World of DTC Marketing

JUNE 27, 2021

Yet the media has led with “diabetes drug leads to major weight loss” Will doctors inform patients? Wegovy’s most common side effects were gastrointestinal problems, including nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which 80% of patients reported, according to USA Today. appeared first on World of DTC Marketing.com.

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World of DTC Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

SUMMARY: The biggest argument against pharma is the cost of prescription drugs. Pharma could do something about this by simply uniting to make it easier for patients who can’t afford their medications to get them free or at little cost. It would, of course, be non-profit, and employees would be paid collectively by the industry.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Patients want quick fixes, and the idea of losing some weight because of a new drug is enticing to them. ” Public payers such as Medicare will not cover the drug, due to a existing rule concerning weight loss treatments, and only a few private insurers have explicitly said that they will cover it. .” Click to Tweet.

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 1, 2021

SUMMARY: Online health seeker numbers are still very high, indicating that people are doing their research first before asking for a prescription drug. Online ads for prescription drugs are unique. Nobody will see an online ad for a prescription drug and ask their doctor about it without doing some research first.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 29, 2022

Proper diet and exercise seem to be the prescription for many common health problems: high blood pressure and cholesterol, heart disease, stroke, and obesity. An obese person who spends most of their time sitting and eating pays the same for health insurance as a person who watches their diet and exercises. This is not normal.

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World of DTC Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2022

While people continue to rally against the high cost of prescription drugs, U.S. Prescription drugs only accounted for $.11 2wo: Insurers should strongly suggest to obese customers that they seek nutritional counseling and offer them fitness wearable devices with financial incentives to lose weight. By one estimate, the U.S.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 8, 2022

It’s hard not to read a story about how high drug prices are hurting patients, but while drug prices are too high and outpacing inflation, insurers, PBMs, and hospitals are taking huge slices of healthcare dollars with little notice from Congress and the media. Pharma people don’t do anything without doing an ROI analysis.

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World of DTC Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The FDA’s “accelerated approval” program expedites the evaluation process for new treatments so that patients can have access to them sooner. Between 2011 and 2018, cumulative spending on 44 FDA-approved oral targeted therapy drugs was $3.5

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Rapamycin was approved in 1999 and it’s also worth noting their Phase II was a tiny patient population. ” Research shows that cancer patients are more likely to declare bankruptcy than the average person. According to research, cancer patients are 2.65 The drug is rapamycin in a new albumin coating. Click to Tweet.

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World of DTC Marketing

JUNE 3, 2021

Every year, more than any other factor, health care bankrupts Americans, even though 70% of them have insurance. They fire their mega carriers and put health care in the hands of the people who care about it most – patients. Fraud drives up the cost of insurance, but insurance companies don’t pursue it as banks do credit card fraud.

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World of DTC Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2021

Cost is not that big of an issue for people who have health insurance. Diabetes patients, for example, rely on social media to see what others are saying about new treatments, while psoriasis patients want to know the differences between treatments. It’s more about weighing the benefit against the potential side effects.

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World of DTC Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2022

Consumers would ask their doctor about an advertised prescription drug in a perfect world. Ask current patients what drove them to get an Rx for a branded product (MS drug). Ask current patients what drove them to get an Rx for a branded product (MS drug). In our REAL world, that isn’t the way it happens.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 1, 2022

Most Americans don’t have much of a choice for their insurance plan. Mor than 54 % get health insurance through their employer. According to federal data, annual per-person spending growth for workplace health insurance has exceeded the spending growth among Medicare and Medicaid patients in nine of the past 13 years.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2021

OPENING: American cancer patients spent more than $21 billion on their care in 2019. billion and patient time costs of $4.87 Some cancer patients may face out-of-pocket costs of nearly $12,000 a year for one drug. Many cancer patients without adequate insurance have only the starkest choice: your money or your life.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 11, 2022

Most patients completely trusted their physicians “to put their needs above all other considerations” (69%). According to Accenture, “the pharma industry has ‘earned’ some modest gains in trust from patients due to vaccine development. Even patients will still line up if a prescription drug shows promise.

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World of DTC Marketing

JULY 5, 2022

Pharma websites provide the prescription that can help people overcome health problems but too often, they ignore the patient’s responsibility to lose weight and exercise. This is where health insurers and pharma can help. I couldn’t find, for example, any CME on talking to patients about weight loss and exercise.

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World of DTC Marketing

MAY 30, 2021

Google has signed an agreement with the Mayo clinic to help analyze data as they want a slice of healthcare dollars but what’s missing from these tech companies is “the human touch” that patients want. The problem is that VC sees opportunities that don’t necessarily align with patients’ needs.

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World of DTC Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2022

The days of someone seeing an ad for a prescription drug and rushing to ask their doctor about it have replaced the quest for more information, usually online. Today patients and caregivers want to know more about the product’s side effects and cost, and they also want to hear from current patients.

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MedCity News

JUNE 16, 2023

Investors in 2022 appeared confident that the continued transformation of drug research and development protocols and the overall life sciences industry will not only include digital health solutions, but will even depend on them for data collection, analysis, patient engagement, and even their therapeutic properties.

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World of DTC Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2021

Still, she is missing a lot of facts at a time when hospital and health insurance costs are soaring. I always have pointed instances in which pharma puts Wall Street first and patients second. PBM’s and insurers required that patients with high cholesterol first use generic versions of Lipitor and Crestor to save money.

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World of DTC Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Pharma companies are still too focused on profits while people continue to rely on prescription drugs to compensate for unhealthy lifestyles. I understand the hard-working people who really believe in what they’re doing for patients, but senior executives continue to bow to Wall Street. Are prescription drugs priced too high?

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PM360

JULY 13, 2023

“Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them,” C. 2021 revealed that roughly one in four prescriptions were never filled. 1 In addition, of patients who began therapy, more than 70% were no longer on their prescribed medication after 12 months. 2021 revealed that roughly one in four prescriptions were never filled.

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World of DTC Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Our healthcare system makes too much money for insurers, PBM’s and pharma companies to change. In 2016, consumers told Aflac that enrolling in health insurance should feel like an experience on Amazon. Sarasohn-Kahn tackles in her book HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. health care spending reached $3.7

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World of DTC Marketing

APRIL 1, 2021

All prescription drugs don’t make us healthy; they just mask a potentially unhealthy lifestyle that eventually will cost patients and our healthcare system a lot of money, time, and pain. Many Americans think it’s OK to ask people with unhealthful lifestyles to pay higher insurance premiums and deductibles.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

According to the survey “, almost one in five do bring up a drug they’ve seen in advertising during a medical visit while one in 10 says they even ask directly for the prescription” That might seem impressive, but the study omits that those statistics vary wildly from health condition to health condition.

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World of DTC Marketing

MARCH 4, 2021

million were in countries where more than half the population is overweight” A study of thousands of hospitalized coronavirus patients in the New York City area has found that nearly all of them had at least one major chronic health condition, and most — 88 percent — had at least two. Hypertension, obesity, and diabetes were common.

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Pharma Marketing Network

MARCH 3, 2021

But what about patients? And what about the disrupted patient journey? What can our industry do to ensure patients maintain continuity of care at a time when good health is imperative? Reassess the Patient Journey. Enhance Patient Services Programs. Here, we offer four ways pharma marketers can help.

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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Struggling with burnout while maintaining high-quality healthcare services that patients love? Tune in to our latest podcast as Lee Aase, founder of HELPCare, LLC, shares how he transitioned from his pioneering social media work at Mayo Clinic to lead an innovative membership-based direct-to-patient healthcare business.

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