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The Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 is a set of Californian laws that regulate Healthcare Service Plans. Under these laws, pharmacy benefit managers with contracts to Health care service plans are required by law to be registered with the Department of Managed Health Care to disclose information. [58] SB 966: Pharmacy benefits
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are in the crosshairs of Republicans and Democrats in Congress but have so far dodged any new litigation or reforms that had been targeted for inclusion in last ...
According to the Harvard Political Review, the problem with pharmacy benefit managers is that they “have vertically integrated with pharmacy chains and health insurers through massive ...
Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) are employing new strategies to squeeze independent pharmacies, even as the industry faces pressure from the federal government, which is looking for ways to curb ...
Health-related quality of life instruments are generally multi-dimensional questionnaires assessing a combination of aspects of impairments and/or disability and reflect a patient's health status. In contrast, QoL goes beyond impairment and disability by asking about the patient's ability to fulfill their needs and also about their emotional ...
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a widely used set of performance measures in the managed care industry, developed and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). HEDIS was designed to allow consumers to compare health plan performance to other plans and to national or regional benchmarks.
Patient Blood Management is an approach that can be implemented in hospital settings for taking care of people who require blood transfusions. [4] PBM includes techniques that may help ensure each person receiving a blood transfusion receives optimal treatment for their condition and also ensures that the blood supply (bank of donated blood) is maintained to ensure that all people who require ...
[9] [10] In 2004 Tauzin was appointed as chief lobbyist for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the trade association and lobby group for the drug industry with a "rumored salary of $2 million a year," [9] drawing criticism from Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy group. They claimed that Tauzin "may have been ...