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#telemedicine | #digitalhealth | #bioethics | #healthequity

Former: @truepill_rx @stanford @mit @CUBoulder

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

https://t.co/Ls6J68sZQQ

[stefan @wasserstein_rao]

bio/acc mostly means that you think it's cool that LLMs can design proteins. We actually need entirely new software and hardware infrastructure to begin testing even a fraction of those proteins. The biggest tech optimists are completely in the dark about lab automation.

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

@DrAllyLouks congratulations!

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

@nikillinit actually not a terrible idea at all

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Why does Medicare pay 5 to 10 times more for the same procedure at a health system than at a private practice?

CMS policies are skewed to favor large health systems, allowing this disparity to continue.

Why?

How much influence has the American Hospital Association exerted over CMS to secure these favors?

How much money has changed hands, and how long will this grift go on?

It’s time for answers and accountability.

Patients and private practices deserve better.

#HealthcareTransparency #EndTheGrift

[Rik Renard @rikrenard]

Anthropic is going to put a lot of HLTH vendors out of business 👀

[Lilly Medical US @LillyMedical]

Hey #FallClinical2024 Attendees! Don’t miss our #AlopeciaAreata medical symposium on JAK selectivity on Saturday, October 26th with dermatology experts Dr. Brett King and Dr. Brittany Craiglow. View the full agenda here: https://t.co/owqpZJtU8O

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

this is a major problem in healthcare (in the US as well) and something we are actively trying to fix

[Emily 🌻 @EmLovesTay]

What's the point in making a doctor's appointment when I'm going to sit in the waiting room and wait for an hour and a half 😭

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

This could be a mad libs:

Hey ____________ can you explain why my scripts are $___________ using your insurance but only $__ paying cash at my local pharmacy?

[Ben Toutofshape @Warr1or42]

Hey #CVSCaremark, can you explain why my prescriptions cost 280 dollars using your insurance, but only cost 52 dollars paying the cash price at my local pharmacy?
@cvspharmacy
#fraud #Bigpharma #healthcare

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

@annaarthoe Agree that it's cringe, but also... i mean, it probably worked, right? Which is mostly an indictment of the modern world

[Christina Farr @chrissyfarr]

Whoa !

https://t.co/pYsLiyJiZF

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

Wow.

[Sravan Panuganti, DO, FACOS @SPuro88]

Epic has been down for the last 3 hours at my hospital and there are clearly two types of providers.

Those who know what ADC VAN DISMAL is and those who don’t. Happy to be in the former and able to survive.

[In-Woo Park @castelprayonn]

I'm taking a gap year straight out of high school to build my first startup, and today I'm starting to build it publicly.

For the past few months, I've been working with an executive from Canada's largest pharmacy chain and a few pharmacists on Rx Assist. More details in🧵.

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

!!!

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

1. Today @FTC filed an administrative complaint against the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs): Caremark Rx, Express Scripts, and OptumRx.

https://t.co/gcibJDFlHu

[Real Doc Speaks @realdocspeaks]

The PBMs feel that they are being unfairly targeted, and I have a simple plan to help them out. To avoid the appearance of impropriety, we should do the following:

• Not allow insurance companies to own PBMs as insurance companies are the customers of PBMs. This will avoid any question of conflict of interest.

• The PBMs should not be allowed to own any type of pharmacy, this will prevent any incentive to steer customers to affiliated pharmacies.

• Outlaw spread pricing and only allow flat pricing that encourages low price drugs on the formulary.

• Outlaw the anti-kickback exemptions for PBMs and GPOs. This way, we don't have to worry about the rebates; there won't be any.

• Make sure that all pharmacies are reimbursed adequately for the medications they dispense.

• Require that you place all of your net prices on your website, just like Cost Plus Drugs. This level of transparency will earn you respect.

These measures will silence your critics, provide fair pharmacy reimbursement, and allow for transparency and competition.

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

@nikillinit This is the twitter content I'm here for

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

@MartynStrydom We are in sf and building in tech! Maybe not very cool, but… friendly and that harmless kind of awkward?

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

@trulyrxwrites @chrissyfarr We work with a big benefits company that does benefits work for a lot of corporations/businesses. They used all of their normal channels (a lot of email, maybe some text/phone? Maybe some internal company communication channels?) to reach employees, but didn't get a lot of takers

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

@trulyrxwrites @chrissyfarr Thanks! Yes, we offer a variety, from non-pharmaceutical holistic wellness to OTC to virtual mental health to sexual health to pharma. The program I was referring to was free vitamins, but we've also struggled with virtual mental health and general OTC with GenZ (not sure why)

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

@feral__mama (or you can send the script right to your own pharmacy, if that's easier)

[Telepath Health @TelepathHealth]

@feral__mama We built a platform to address exactly this issue! We have a whole network of cash telemedicine doctors (they do visits for like $10) & have contracts with cash (or insurance) pharmacies that do free next-day shipping. Let me know if you want to get hooked up with a doctor visit!