Jan 23, 2023 | Access, Featured
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. Hospital closures, service cuts, and lack of medical care in some of the poorest neighborhoods in the state—that is the status of hospitals and medical care in Mississippi, where 38 rural hospitals (54%) are expected to shutter their...
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Jan 3, 2023 | Featured, Pharmacy Benefit Managers
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. Cigna’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), Express Scripts, has introduced network changes that have reduced the number of retail pharmacies within the Department of Defense (DoD)’s TRICARE benefits program by 15,000. Many of these are...
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Jan 3, 2023 | Featured, Podcast
Patients Rising Podcast covers a wide range of healthcare topics and invites experts and stakeholders to share their opinions, thoughts, and experiences with our audience. Here are some of our most popular episodes from 2022: Middlemen and Healthcare Costs: Middlemen...
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Nov 21, 2022 | Drug Costs
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. President Biden signed an Executive Order on October 14, 2022, that tasks the HHS Secretary to engage the Innovation Center (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, CMMI) with testing healthcare payment and delivery models to...
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Oct 31, 2022 | Access, Featured
Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. A rare disease, by the U.S. definition, is one that afflicts less than 200,000 individuals in the population at a given time. Compared to more widespread conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, ‘rare’ diseases do not receive as...
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