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.
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
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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?
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.
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🧵.
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
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.
@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
@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)
@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!