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AetnaCare Boosted by Merck Collaboration: Aetna has announced AetnaCare℠, a new program designed to offer members an integrated care plan so they have the knowledge, motivation and confidence to manage their own health. Over 40% of Aetna’s medical spend currently runs through some form of value-based care model today and the company is developing programs like […]
Published January 3, 2016 in Managed Healthcare Executive Is an HIV Vaccine on the horizon? There’s good news in efforts to combat HIV/AIDs and hepatitis C (hep C, HCV). These viral diseases are now more vulnerable because of improved gene-based targeting and communications around exposure from surveillance programs. Some feel, however, that policymakers could do […]
Amid the constant change churning the health care marketplace, employers have the opportunity to use value-based tactics to get more for their health benefits, including pharmaceutical spending that is currently the biggest driver of rising health care costs. That message was echoed by all four speakers at the Alliance Learning Circle on “Doses and Dollars: […]
Ebola is unlikely to become a profitable endeavor for Western pharmaceutical companies, “affecting primarily the poor in Africa with demand for drugs relatively modest,” according to John Santilli, of Access Market Intelligence, which provides market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. http://formularyjournal.modernmedicine.com/formulary-journal/news/ebola-clinical-activity-speeds-vaccine-candidates-works