Allan Coukell

Head of policy @CivicaRx, but tweets are my own.

[Blueberry Pharmacy @Blueberry_Rx]

🧐 this receipt from CVS, where the insurance is billed $363, and the customer pays $64.45/90 tabs of Atorvastatin. Here, that would be about $1.49 + a fair $5 member fee.

For the doubters: a stock bottle that cost us just $11.88/1000ct. We can buy 5,425 tablets for $64.45!!

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

A spot-on bit for all my fellow nerds out there

[NEJM Catalyst @nejmcatalyst]

Vaccinating Health Care Supply Chains Against Market Failure: The Case of Civica Rx: https://t.co/xZNs4KfDSH @CivicaRx @SSMHealth

[Allan Coukell @coukell]

@NOELreports I had to refollow you just now.

[Allan Coukell @coukell]

@DanWuori And then for the rest of the life, she modeled her father who stood and filmed while her mother was throwing up.

[Arnold Ventures @Arnold_Ventures]

.@Forbes released its 2023 philanthropy scorecard and once again, @johnarnold and @LauraArnoldFdn earned the highest score — a rare 5 — for their charitable giving. Only 11 people from the #Forbes400 have given away more than 20% of their wealth: https://t.co/WCmz0z98CZ

[Allan Coukell @coukell]

@nbcwashington Rock Creek Park is a jewel of immeasurable value in the heart of the city. If it did not exist, we would gladly pay tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to have a place for walkers, runners and cyclists to enjoy nature free of cars.

[Allan Coukell @coukell]

Or 300 students at U Mass. Just saying.

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

$43,000,000 was spent in three years with very little research or anything else to show for it. 130 students could have had a totally free BU education (plus room/board) for four years instead . Or 10 faculty chairs could have been endowed in perpetuity. What a waste of money.

[Civica Rx @CivicaRx]

"Civica Rx significantly increased supply security and lowered the cost in aggregate...these medications are critical to patient care & have been prone to shortages." - Carter Dredge, @SSMHealth @nejmcatalyst @CivicaRx https://t.co/CPShtY3DyZ

[Antonio Ciaccia @A_Ciaccia]

Big PBMs say “Drugmakers alone have the power to set prices.”

Then how is that the same PBM set five different prices for the same drug, at the same pharmacy, on the same day, where the delta between the bookends had an over 10x difference?

Our latest: https://t.co/mKiwV7UmYb

[Allan Coukell @coukell]

@DrugChannels, in passing, on the difficulty or regulating PBMS.

[Adam J. Fein @DrugChannels]

Do Plan Sponsors Understand How Their PBMs Make Money?

My $0.02 on how #PBMs' profit model has evolved—and why a plan sponsor can feel satisfied with PBM transparency while remaining unaware of how its PBM actually earns money.

@psgconsults

https://t.co/4Ln83JU9cK

[Adam J. Fein @DrugChannels]

Do Plan Sponsors Understand How Their PBMs Make Money?

My $0.02 on how #PBMs' profit model has evolved—and why a plan sponsor can feel satisfied with PBM transparency while remaining unaware of how its PBM actually earns money.

@psgconsults

https://t.co/4Ln83JU9cK

[Antonio Ciaccia @A_Ciaccia]

“Across a selection of these so-called specialty generic drugs, Cigna and CVS’s prices were at least 24 times higher on average than roughly what the medicines’ manufacturers charge, the @WSJ found.” - @joewalkerWSJ

https://t.co/0eo2F4Gxyt

[Civica Rx @CivicaRx]

"Civica is the only pharma created specifically to address drug shortages. The drugs we deliver are not chosen for return-on-investment. They are chosen by hospitals because they are in shortage or at risk of shortage." @coukell, @CivicaRx at U.S. Subcommittee on Health hearing

[Erin Fox @foxerinr]

ICYMI - @mganio_ASHP @coukell @CivicaRx @ASHPOfficial provided great recs on fixing the drug shortages problem during todays hearing https://t.co/nVyA3hczwv

[Allan Coukell @coukell]

"Generic drugs should be cheap, but insurers are charging thousands of dollars for them" (NB - in place of "insurer" read "PBM," though sometimes they are one and the same.) https://t.co/rZECOnQXTs

[Allan Coukell @coukell]

It has been a busy few years…

[Civica Rx @CivicaRx]

Five years in less than 10 minutes. We invite you to watch and learn more about the power of partnership and collaboration. @CivicaRx https://t.co/fUkxk3Yc1s

[Allan Coukell @coukell]

Can’t say we weren’t warned.

[Allan Coukell @coukell]

@DomNicholls Enjoy the pod, but the first day of Autumn (aka Fall) is Sept 23.

[Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸 @alexplitsas]

Ukraine came to the aid of the United States after we were attacked on 9/11 and deployed troops to support the ISAF mission in Afghanistan for almost 14 years