According to our recent payer coverage analysis for epilepsy treatments, combined with news from key healthcare influencers, market access is shifting in this drug landscape.
To help make sense of this new research, MMIT's team of experts analyzes the data and summarizes the key findings for you. The following are brief highlights. To read the full piece, including payer coverage, drug competition and prescriber trends, click here.
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States and the federal government recently began rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers across the country. Health plans, particularly those that serve high-risk individuals, may be ideally situated to coordinate care and update members on vaccination opportunities, experts tell AIS Health.
The FDA on Dec. 11 authorized emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech in individuals age 16 and older. Then the agency on Dec. 18 authorized Moderna’s vaccine for emergency use in people 18 years or older.
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Although 2021 has just begun, major health insurers appear to be wasting no time when it comes to spending the influx of cash that they've collected as a result of lower routine health care utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, AIS Health reported.
On Jan. 4, Centene Corp. revealed that it struck a deal to purchase Magellan Health, Inc. for $2.2 billion, a transaction that promises to augment the insurer's existing behavioral health, specialty health care and pharmacy management assets. Two days later, UnitedHealth Group said it plans to purchase the technology company Change Healthcare for approximately $13 billion in a deal that will bolster its analytics and advisory arm, OptumInsight.
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According to our recent payer coverage analysis for non-small cell lung cancer ALK+ or ROS1+ treatments, combined with news from key healthcare influencers, market access is shifting in this drug landscape.
To help make sense of this new research, MMIT's team of experts analyzes the data and summarizes the key findings for you. The following are brief highlights. To read the full piece, including payer coverage, drug competition and prescriber trends, click here.
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As the Supreme Court decides on the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), much of the focus has been on the people who would lose health insurance coverage and protections for pre-existing conditions if the law is overturned. Another ramification of such a ruling is that the biosimilars market could be completely upended, AIS Health reported.
The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) created the 351(k) biosimilar pathway. After more than one attempt to get a stand-alone bill to pass, lawmakers made it part of the ACA, and it became law on March 23, 2010.
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According to our recent payer coverage analysis for metastatic prostate cancer treatments, combined with news from key healthcare influencers, market access is shifting in this drug landscape.
To help make sense of this new research, MMIT's team of experts analyzes the data and summarizes the key findings for you. The following are brief highlights. To read the full piece, including payer coverage, drug competition and prescriber trends, click here.
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As details continue to emerge about the availability of COVID-19 vaccines and how they will be administered, the role that payers will play in the process is becoming clearer, AIS Health reported.
It's imperative for health plans to do two key things at the same time, according to Katherine Dallow, M.D., the vice president of clinical programs and strategy at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Payers need to help the entities that will be distributing the vaccine to identify the individuals who should be first in line to be vaccinated, and they need to use their resources to help educate the community.
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After years of failed attempts, Congress has finally come to an agreement on a measure to end the practice of surprise medical billing, AIS Health reported.
Surprise billing, also known as balance billing, is the practice of charging patients for out-of-network procedures that insurers refuse to pay for in whole or in part. Often, patients incur these balance bills without their knowledge. The new legislation would ban providers from sending such a bill to patients, and would instead require providers to negotiate reimbursement with the patient's insurer or submit the dispute to a binding arbitration process.
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In 2020, the PBM industry continued to deepen its integration with other industry players, a trend that experts say is likely to continue in coming years. The PBM space has consolidated to the point that five firms — UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx, CVS Health Corp.'s Caremark, Cigna Corp.'s Express Scripts, Anthem Inc.'s IngenioRx, Humana Inc.'s Humana Pharmacy Solutions, and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield affiliate-owned Prime Therapeutics LLC — manage the lion's share of the pharmacy benefits offered to U.S. health plan members.
Beyond their deepening integration with the payers that own them, these firms are working to expand their data and direct-to-consumer operations, AIS Health reported.
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According to our recent payer coverage analysis for migraine prevention treatments, combined with news from key healthcare influencers, market access is shifting in this drug landscape.
To help make sense of this new research, MMIT's team of experts analyzes the data and summarizes the key findings for you. The following are brief highlights. To read the full piece, including payer coverage, drug competition and prescriber trends, click here.
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