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OptumRX (United Healthcare) Buys Home Infusion Company AxelaCare-Using Algorithms To Determine Your Care With Being Financed By A “Too Big to Fail” US Health Insurance Company…
OptumRX (United Healthcare) Buys Home Infusion Company AxelaCare-Using Algorithms To Determine Your Care With Being Financed By A “Too Big to Fail” US Health Insurance Company…

We all know the home drug infusion business is growing as companies send out technicians and clinical personnel to administer treatments at home versus making a trip to the hospital or to the doctor’s office.  This is yet one more subsidiary added to the approaching 400 or so subsidiaries of United …

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27Nov2015


HHS Joins Optum Labs as Research Partner–Back Peddles Support of FDA Sentinel Program That Does the Same Thing-More Impact from the Six Degrees of Bob Rubin Running Healthcare in the US
HHS Joins Optum Labs as Research Partner–Back Peddles Support of FDA Sentinel Program That Does the Same Thing-More Impact from the Six Degrees of Bob Rubin Running Healthcare in the US

We know Optum Labs is there to make money, selling slots to drug, device companies and others to have the “use” of mining their data.  So far all we have had of any significance reported is the same thing Kaiser reported from their registry information on hip and knee replacements.  A big part of ho…

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18Nov2015


Where to Find Cheap Generic Prescription Drugs Less Than a Lot of Co-Pays-Use Cash-And Leave the Insurance, Reward Card, And Pharmacy Benefit Credentials at Home..
Where to Find Cheap Generic Prescription Drugs Less Than a Lot of Co-Pays-Use Cash-And Leave the Insurance, Reward Card, And Pharmacy Benefit Credentials at Home..

I have been asked this question many times and with the war on both cost of drugs and the war on cash, I thought this might be helpful to put some links in as a reference.  Granted all the drugs you need won’t be on the lists perhaps, but there’s enough of them that cover a lot of what is commonly p…

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08Nov2015


Catholic Hospital Takes Horizon Blue Cross Insurance Company to Court-Tiered Hospitals With Additional Policy Discounts Unfair to Hospitals of Faith–Killer Algorithms At Work..
Catholic Hospital Takes Horizon Blue Cross Insurance Company to Court-Tiered Hospitals With Additional Policy Discounts Unfair to Hospitals of Faith–Killer Algorithms At Work..

Well what’s not to say we’ll see more of this.  Yes indeed it’s getting complicated to get healthcare today.  We have the elite list and the cheap list it appears with insurance plan offerings.  I said a while back that there are armies of Quants hired from banks and other financial firms, i.e. high…

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08Nov2015


CVS Laying Off 150 Employees at Headquarters, Meanwhile at the CareMark Florida Ranch A New 500 Personnel Facility to Add Support for Mail Order Drugs In the Works..
CVS Laying Off 150 Employees at Headquarters, Meanwhile at the CareMark Florida Ranch A New 500 Personnel Facility to Add Support for Mail Order Drugs In the Works..

You can’t make this stuff up and of course this is a big push to save money and get more folks on mail order prescriptions.  That sector of CVS is growing and it makes money as you can refill prescriptions easier on an automated basis.  Insurers can get billed as soon as “the pills go in the bottle”…

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07Nov2015
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