AMCP Partnership Forum Develops Innovative Strategies to Support Biosimilar Use and Development
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Managed care experts representing payers, pharmacists, integrated delivery systems, health economists and analysts, patient advocates, academicians, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other key decision-makers convened for AMCP s Partnership Forum, Biosimilars: Policy, Practice, and Post-Marketing Surveillance to Support Treatment and Coverage Decisions, to identify actions that support biosimilar use and development. Biologics, including biosimilars, offer an opportunity to expand patient access to high-quality, cost-effective medications and reduce health care costs. Stakeholders from all corners of managed care pharmacy participated in AMCP s Partnership Forum and delivered innovative strategies to support biosimilar development and adoption. AMCP is dedicated t
12/21/20
Joe Paduda
Two members of the Perdue family, the folks who made tens of billions of dollars addicting patients to dangerous drugs, testified before Congress last week. Both averred there
was nothing they could have done to avoid/prevent the damage their company did.
On thursday
the CDC reported 81,230 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12-months ending in May 2020.
Quoting the CDC:
largest number of drug overdoses for a 12-month period ever recorded.
The Perdue family s complicity in this national disaster is obvious and damning to
everyone but the billionaires who ve parked more than $10 billion of their profits from drug dealing offshore, safe from recovery efforts by American law enforcement and Perdue s victims.
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12/17/20
Joe Paduda
A solid study found that the US infection rate is likely way higher than the official reports. The
almost one in every five of us has had the disease.
Coincidentally, I was talking with a client yesterday about his bout with what sounded a lot like COVID. Turns out his wife had it as well. This is just one of several stories I ve heard from folks who got sick as far back as last December or January.
The Economist has a very well done
COVID trackerthat provides data on excess deaths during the pandemic era, as well as a description of potential reporting issues and causes.
AJMC®), the leading multimedia peer-reviewed journal dedicated to issues in managed care, has added
Highmark Health to its Strategic Alliance Partnership (SAP) program.
“Highmark strives to provide its members with affordable and accessible health care focused on outcomes and putting the patient first,” said Mike Hennessy Jr., president and CEO of MJH Life Sciences™, the parent company of
AJMC®. “We look forward to working with Highmark Health and providing information to its network of providers and improving the health care system.”
Highmark Health is a national, blended health organization that includes one of America’s largest Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers and a growing regional hospital and physician network. For the past several year Highmark has been on a journey to transform health, not just healthcare. The new strategy is built around uniting payors, providers and strategic partners to better serve customers and clinicians and to reengage people with th