February is longer than ordinary this yr, which implies that you’ll have further time to leap into our month-to-month curated choice of noteworthy information. On this situation:
- An replace on the retail pharmacy shakeout
- Arguing for prime drug costs
- A number one researcher gives a 340B actuality examine
- Physicians don’t need pharmacists getting uppity
Plus, Dave Grohl fights to your proper to…have healthcare worth transparency?
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Walgreens, CVS, and Different Pharmacy Chains Are in a World of Harm. What’s to Blame., Barron’s
Be Grateful for Excessive Drug Costs, The Wall Avenue Journal
”Nobody on this nation is completely satisfied that Individuals pay for drug R&D whereas the remainder of the world free-rides off our funding. However we don’t run the world. If we attempt to free-ride too, there gained’t be a journey.”
Whether or not you agree or not, the authors present an articulate and compelling counterargument to the context-free demonization of the pharma business.
5 Questions with Sayeh Nikpay: The 340B Drug Pricing Program, Cornerstone Analysis
On this wonderful interview, Dr. Nikpay explains how phrases like “security internet” and “stretching scarce sources” present a deceptive image of the 340B program’s severe shortcomings. I particularly appreciated her abstract:
”My analysis finds that the 340B program creates perverse incentives for coated entities. I’ve used massive, nationally consultant, administrative datasets to indicate that:
- Hospitals that start collaborating within the 340B program don’t meaningfully enhance their safety-net engagement.
- The 340B program’s eligibility standards poorly goal safety-net suppliers.
- Contract pharmacies are much less prone to be positioned in medically underserved areas, or areas with larger uninsured charges.
It’s an particularly well timed reminder—particularly as a result of we simply realized that the out-of-control 340B program grew at double-digit charges (once more) in 2023.
What is the distinction between pharmacists and physicians?, American Medical Affiliation
Foo Fighters to Carry out at Energy to the Sufferers Live performance in Washington, D.C., Energy to the Sufferers
My worlds collided after I realized that the Foo Fighters will play a live performance (checks notes) “in help of healthcare worth transparency.”
There goes my hero! I’m unsure how or why Dave Grohl and co. help this trigger. Maybe he is aware of that I have been ready everlong for the gross-to-net bubble to pop. However right here we’re!
