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One more program to confuse us when needing a prescription, although I’m sure there is money to be saved here, but shoot I like the $4.00 or $10.00 generic prescriptions offered by others, no enrollment and no questions asked, simple. For the monthly fee, you might need to be a patient with some...
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11-06-2008
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The National Cancer Institute has made clinical trial participation a top national priority and yet participant levels are still not perhaps where they could be. Yes, this is a big decision for any patient/physician to make as far as whether or not to enroll, but many trials are offering lifesaving...
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11-02-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Investors, health insurance, Pharma, Cancer, clinical trials, HMO, Pharmaceuticals, R and D, Drug Development, Cancer Institute
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A qualified system is not faxing! Many offices who are set up with an EMR or EHR are already covered and are either set up and ready to go or have the capabilities. For those who are not, there’s a permanent link on this page to NEPSI, the free e-prescribing initiative where you can sign...
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10-31-2008
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I don’t know of one doctor or hospital that is not writing off balances of what the insurance companies are not paying. On top of that it is one administrative nightmare, medical assistants can’t get the time in the consultation rooms with the doctors as they are tied up on administrative functions...
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10-23-2008
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The cost sometime next year though may go down with Complete Genomics and their upcoming offer of $5000.00 to sequence a complete individual DNA. There are some that don’t share the same interest in view of privacy issues, but in my small opinion, privacy is pretty much only existing in the shadows...
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10-19-2008
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Wellness programs indeed have their place and can offer some nice incentives, such as this article states, but both individuals were relatively healthy people and were probably already in a pretty good place with exercise and how they took care of themselves, thus for them it worked and found a couple...
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The costs of cancer treatment and associated drugs is rising as we all know. We are pouring money into R and D as fast as we can, and yes that does cost money, but insurers are making it hard to get insurance coverage and somewhere along the line you need to have a drug that is affordable as well...
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Medical Quack on Reuters. Now this is a sad state of affairs to be the prudent consumer, and yet you are potentially taking money out of your doctor's pocket by doing so when it comes to pay for performance for them, so what's up with this when purchasing $4.00 Generic Drugs. BD...
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09-18-2008
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Everyone is waiting to see what CMS decides to do. Recently in the UK in London there are plans to open clinics just for this purpose and after the initial clinic more are to follow, so how we handle it in the US, everyone is waiting to see. BD September 9, 2008 | Payers, physicians, and...
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Cerner president speaks out about the insurance business, "they need to be redefined". Amgen CEO and President Kevin Sharer called for a better structured FDA . Overall the summary statement says the same thing I have brought up time and time again, who's going to to...
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More additional affiliations for the FDA to gather information. In the news recently have been other agreements with companies such as Blue Cross and others who will be providing data to also study the effects of drugs through medical record information in their files, based on claims, etc. No...
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08-18-2008
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This brings up an interesting question, what do you go for relief or bankruptcy? Although now it is not real wide spread, but as the Biomed business continues to grow with new break throughs, how will this process continue? Is this more justification for biosimilars, the Biomed side of generic...