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LANSING, Mich. (AP) A Republican legislative leader and other lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled bipartisan measures they said are designed to lower prescription drug prices, bring parity in insurance coverage of chemotherapy and improve the quality of health care.
The sweeping 15-bill package would, among other things, regulate pharmacy benefit managers that run prescription drug coverage for insurers and employers, and ban the “middlemen” PBMs from profiting by charging a health plan and their enrollees more than what is paid to the dispensing pharmacy. Three managers dominate the U.S. market: CVS Health’s Caremark business, UnitedHealth’s OptumRx and Cigna’s recently acquired Express Scripts.
Michigan lawmakers unveil bills to curb health care costs
By DAVID EGGERTFebruary 25, 2021 GMT
LANSING, Mich. (AP) A Republican legislative leader and other lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled bipartisan measures they said are designed to lower prescription drug prices, bring parity in insurance coverage of chemotherapy and improve the quality of health care.
The sweeping 15-bill package would, among other things, regulate pharmacy benefit managers that run prescription drug coverage for insurers and employers, and ban the “middlemen” PBMs from profiting by charging a health plan and their enrollees more than what is paid to the dispensing pharmacy. Three managers dominate the U.S. market: CVS Health’s Caremark business, UnitedHealth’s OptumRx and Cigna’s recently acquired Express Scripts.
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ATLANTA - FEBRUARY 24, 2021 - New study reports that early in the 2020 pandemic in the United States, one-third of cancer survivors worried about treatment and cancer care disruptions. Using a mixed methods approach, investigators utilized survivors own words to more deeply describe their experiences and worries about the pandemic s impact on their overall health.
The article, appearing in the
Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, finds the impact of the pandemic on cancer survivors and the broader health care system is widespread and exacerbated serious gaps in the health care system. For this study, investigators led by Corinne Leach, MPH, MS, PhD, from the American Cancer Society and colleagues, examined cancer survivor worries in relation to treatment, infection and finances early in the U.S. pandemic. Data for this study came from a survey dated March 25 to April 8, 2020 from the 2019-2020 American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network s (ACS CAN) Survivor Views Panel.