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The Positive Impact of Direct Primary Care on Employer Healthcare Spending

Plum Health

Studies conducted by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Milliman provide valuable insights into these new models of healthcare delivery and financing. As of 2019, 49.6% individual), and 1.4% These models simplify the healthcare business by removing insurance companies from basic primary care. by Medicaid, 14.2% by military.

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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

Associate Professor & Dr. Longtao He, Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. Psychological health during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic outbreak. Ebola-related stigma in Ghana: Individual and community level determinants. Scholars such as Wen et al.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

A May 2019 CMS final rule that would have required drug TV advertisements to disclose the WAC of the drug was challenged by a group of pharmaceutical companies and vacated on statutory grounds by the D.C. Drug Price Negotiation to Benefit Medicare and Commercial Plans.