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High-Impact Drugs: Is “Impact” on patients or payers?

I caught a report from OptumRx of “Five Drugs Set to Have the Biggest Impact on Payers and Patients.” It’s ...
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Acthar Gel: from 10,000 Feet

There’s a lot of attention going to Acthar Gel and how Medicaid has stripped it of its favorable rebate status, ...
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Acthar Gel: Do Huge Price Hikes (Always) Make Drugmakers Evil?

Both the general press and the trade press have delighted in predicting great injury (if not even death) to Mallinckrodt ...
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Devices: Start with Coverage, or Reimbursement?

The world of launching a new healthtech product is outrageously complicated in our era. Even large and sophisticated devicemakers can ...
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