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New Developments in Macular Degeneration/Diabetic Eye Disease

Visual impairment can be a major health issue for older adults, ranging from a minor inconvenience to vision loss significantly impacting quality of life.  Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a neurodegenerative disease of the retina and would fall into the latter category. It’s the leading cause of irreversible vision loss among the elderly. In 2016, […]

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Drug Innovation Continues Despite a World-Wide Pandemic

While much of the world was on pause during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are definite signs that even a pandemic cannot hold back drug innovation. Despite the variety of challenges posed by the dreaded contagion, the FDA continued to churn out drug approvals in 2021 and innovate health advancements for the American public. Historically, December

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High Cost, Lifelong Treatments and the Impact on Payers and Patients

Healthcare payers may not be familiar with the high costs of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), or even know what it is, that is until the ultra-expensive drugs prescribed to treat this condition start showing up on claim reports. With a yearly cost of treatment reaching nearly $1MM, payers and patients alike need to be considered

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Want the Lowest-Net-Cost Drugs? Change Your Thinking on Disruption

It might seem like a lowest-net-cost formulary would be made up of clinically equivalent agents with the lowest overall cost. But in the complex world of drug pricing and pharmacy benefits, that is not the case. Lowest-net-cost formularies are a good way for organizations to lower their pharmacy spend. These formularies substitute clinically sound, chemically

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No One Really Knows How We’ll Pay for Gene Therapies

Gene therapies are here and they have the potential to be miraculous. And extremely expensive. The science behind these therapies are truly the realization of a sci-fi promise — that science can alter genes in a cell to eliminate a disease. The price tags — upwards of $2 million per patient — feel like something out

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