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Sunday, September 11, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
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New September Issue
The September issue
of Health Affairs includes articles describing the growing role of
nurses in care delivery, the prevalence of low-value care, the role of
patient pharmaceutical assistance programs, the effects of risk
adjustment, and more.
In particular, one article by Leemore Dafny and coauthors examines
Medicare's Anti-Kickback Statute. Under this statute, drug manufacturers
may donate to patient financial assistance programs for specific
diseases that their drugs treat, so long as they are not directly
covering enrollees' out-of-pocket spending.
The authors find that these donations are likely profitable for
manufacturers
,
as average assistance-eligible spending per patient nearly doubled from
2010 to 2017, while cost sharing per patient declined.
Furthermore, half of the drug spending within each condition was
attributable to a single manufacturer, and most of the remainder was
attributable to two or fewer manufacturers.
The authors indicate that manufacturers could effectively assist in the
purchase of their own medications by contributing to condition-specific
charities.
You can listen to Dafny discuss her research findings on the 100th
episode of A Health Podyssey
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which was published earlier this week.
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Leemore Dafny
On our 100th episode, Leemore Dafny from Harvard Business School joins
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil to discuss her recent research
examining donations made by pharmaceutical manufacturers to patient
assistance charities.
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