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PBMs and insurers want your prescription money

World of DTC Marketing

For many, these coupons represent the difference between filling a prescription and going without lifesaving care, but there is a lot more here than just a co-pay coupon. Health insurers have started effectively stealing co-pay coupons, leaving patients on the hook for far higher expenses. Let’s take a step back for a minute.

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Insurance companies putting profits ahead of patients

World of DTC Marketing

Five of America’s largest health insurers reported more than $11bn in profits in the second quarter – a decline from the same period last year when the Covid-19 pandemic helped drive sky-high profits yet they are having more of a say on patients’ treatments even when HCPs disagree. Then there is prior authorization.

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Report: Fewer Adults Are Interested in Weight Loss Drugs If Not Covered by Insurance

MedCity News

However, just 16% of adults are still interested in taking weight-loss drugs if they’re not covered by insurance. About half of adults, or 45%, said they are at least somewhat interested in taking a “safe, effective weight-loss drug,” according to a new survey by KFF.

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Prescription drug prices are out of cotrol

World of DTC Marketing

This includes about one in five who report that they have not filled a prescription or took an over-the counter drug instead, and about one in ten who say they have cut pills in half or skipped a dose. The public sees profits made by pharmaceutical companies as the largest factor contributing to the price of prescription drugs.

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Free Prescription Drugs Are Often Available—If Only Your Doctor Can Find Them

MedCity News

Price transparency has come a long way over the past couple of years, with insurance companies and hospitals now required to publicly disclose their prices. The more pressing issue is that there is no mechanism in place to make this information easily digestible, personalized to each patient, and placed in context with competitors’ prices.

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Are we heading towards Medicare for all?

World of DTC Marketing

IN SUMMARY: The Democrats control the Senate now, A poll last April shows that 69 percent of registered voters support Medicare for All, a plan that would create a national health insurance plan available for all Americans. The percentage of people with health insurance coverage for all or part of 2019 was 92.0

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PhRMA keeps pummeling PBMs, launching fresh attack on power over pharmacy choice

Fierce Pharma

PhRMA has rounded up its attack ad team once again for another broadside against pharmacy benefit managers, zeroing in this time on the potential for insurers to profit from where prescriptions get | PhRMA has rounded up its attack ad team once again for another broadside against pharmacy benefit managers, zeroing in this time on the potential for (..)

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