Tag: Congress

9Dec, 2015

U.S. Spending on RX 2014

By: Charity Darby | Tags: : FDA, Average Wholesale Price, Big Pharma, Congress, cost, insurance companies, Medicaid, Medicare, PMPM, prescription drugs, price

The United States Spends $297 Billion (USD) on Prescription Drugs, is that fair? As the headline read, in 2014 the United States spent $297,700,000,000 on prescription drugs. This is not only a staggering amount, but what is even more disturbing is we in the U.S. pay the greatest for the most advance drugs in the world. I come to this subject from many angles. One angle is my decade’s long use of prescriptions for chronic problems, the consumer whose life has been saved by those same innovative and revolutionary drugs. […]
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20Jul, 2015

Major Announcement on ICD-10 from AMA and CMS

By: Charity Darby | Tags: CMS, Congress, ICD-10, ICD-9, implementation, Small Providers

On July 6, 2015 the American Medical Association and The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new initiative to “help physicians get ready ahead of the October 1 deadline for conversion from the ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes.” In response to requests from the provider community, CMS is releasing additional guidance that will allow for flexibility in the claims auditing and quality reporting process as the medical community gains experience using the new ICD- 10 code set.” The key part of the announcement is though is that the […]
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U.S. Spending on RX 2014

Major Announcement on ICD-10 from AMA and CMS