Podcast Recommendation: Relentless Health Value E356
Let me begin by acknowledging that my original source of this information was an individual whom I admire a great deal: David Balat who shared this particular podcast via LinkedIn. David is a Texan who happens to be one of the foremost authorities on the anti-consumer and anti-competitive behavior of Pharmacy Benefit Managers ( " PBM ' s " ) and works as Director, Right on Healthcare for Texas Public Policy Foundation and also Executive Director with the nonprofit organization Free2Care. David Balat ' s LinkedIn profile can be seen athttps://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbalat if you ' re interested in following him on LinkedIn...
Source: Scott's Web Log - December 23, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 and Amazon Pharmacy David Balat Dr. Ge Bai Johns Hopkins mark cuban PBM ' PBMs React to GoodRx Pharmacy Benefit Managers podcast Relentless Health Value Stacey Richter With Ge Bai Source Type: blogs
Podcast Recommendation: 46Brooklyn Research
Next up on my recommended podcast is one which is a pretty interesting podcast, but I should advise my followers that this is one podcast which I really need to be able to give my complete, undivided attention to. Meaning: I can ' t listen to it as background noise, I really need to be cognizant of what the podcast is actually saying to follow-along. Some is simply because of the unbelievably complicated nature of the subject being discussed. Sadly, it should not be as complicated as it is, and that ' s a key reason patients in the U.S. pay more for the exact same prescriptions as patients in any other country do. I c...
Source: Scott's Web Log - December 16, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 46Brooklyn Research drug prices drug pricing podcast Source Type: blogs
My Trial of the New Abbott Freestyle Libre 3
There are many compelling features on the new Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 and I may decide to switch; but I may wish to first try the new Dexcom G7 once it ' s FDA-approved. But I won ' t wait forever...In my 15 years of writing this blog, one thing I have never done is something I occasionally see some younger, less-discerning members of the blogging community do: which is to pimp their blogs (and themselves) out to receive free so-called " blog-ola " . I ' ve been blogging since 2005, and I have never endorsed a product in order to get free things, nor have I ever used my blog to even solicit free stuff from companies which...
Source: Scott's Web Log - December 7, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 Abbott Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 CGM CGMS Dexcom Source Type: blogs
Podcast Recommendation: The Edutainer with Dr. Erin L. Albert
Dr. Erin L. Albert is currently the VP Trade Relations and General Counsel at the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company PBC, and like her colleague and company founder Alex Oshmyansky, as well as Mr. Cuban himself, she has become a public face of the startup since communication is largely word-of-mouth and via social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.). Her Twitter feed, for example, had nearly 4,000 followers@ErinLAlbert although some have found that changes implemented since Mr. Musk acquired the company via a massive loan that some of their follower numbers have been adversely impacted. She doesn ' t have as many as M...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 28, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 cash price drug prices mark cuban podcast Source Type: blogs
Cigna-Express Scripts by InsideRx Strategy Modification, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Insulin Trial
Two years ago, I made a very well-informed decision to simply bypass our own healthcare insurance for a number of prescriptions used in my household because we were paying out-of-pocket until the deductible was satisfied anyway (which was about half the year), and our new insurance carrier Aetna and its PBM Caremark was obviously ripping us off by a fairly wide margin. In fact, the financial gamesmanship (or as the PBM ' s call it, " Price Arbitrage " ) was so overt, that it would have been financially foolish to stick with insurance under the presumption that it contributed toward satisfying the deductible (a falsehood; t...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 21, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 CIGNA coupon-generating websites apps coupons Express Scripts InsideRx PBM Source Type: blogs
Podcast Recommendation: a16z's Bio+Health interviews Adam Fein
Julie Yoo, who ' s a General Partner at the Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm known as Andreessen Horowitz (known by the acronym " a16z " ) which was co-founded by Marc Andreessen, a man perhaps best known as one of the original co-authors of Mosaic, which was the first widely-used web browser, and subsequently Netscape. Mr. Andreesen later also co-founded Ning, which was the social platform upon which the old TuDiabetes (by Diabetes Hands Foundation) ran on for years. Before merging with the nonprofit Beyond Type 1 (BT1), TuDiabetes ultimately did migrate away from Ning to different software prior to combi...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 9, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 Adam Fein Adam J. Fein Bio Health Drug Channels Julie Yoo Pembroke Consulting Source Type: blogs
Podcast Episode Recommendation: This Week Health: Conference " Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs Is Solving the Equity Problem in Prescription Medicine "
My next podcast episode recommendation is another one on Mark Cuban ' s CostPlus Drug Company. Recall that myprevious blog post was an interview with the CEO of that company, Alex Oshmyansky. In that episode, Dr. Oshmyansky not only revealed he was an insulin-dependent person with diabetes himself, but he also told the podcaster that Mark Cuban is surprisingly involved in seemingly miniscule details which he said was not only interesting and helpful, but also demonstrates just how involved Mr. Cuban himself is in the Cost Plus Drug Company startup itself. Also, Mr. Cuban likes to talk to the press about his new venture.Thi...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 4, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 cost plus drug company costplus drug company mark cuban podcast Source Type: blogs
Podcast Episode Recommendation: TWiST Solving Prescription Drug Pricing in the U.S. with Cost Plus Drugs and Capital Rx CEOs
So next up on my recommendation for informative podcast episodes is an episode of the podcast called " This Week in Startups " (TWiST) With Jason Calacanis& Molly Wood, spoecifically an episode which interviewsMark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company CEO and Founder Alex Oshmyansky AND the CEO of another startup aiming to disrupt the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) industry, Capital Rx CEO AJ Loiacono. Incidentally, the PBM startup offers a coupon-generating website and app of its own called CapitalRx Advantage Savings (or CRxAdvantage)https://capitalrxadvantage.com/ which is one worth saving on your smartphone.During the inte...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 29, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 capitalrx mark cuban podcast startups Source Type: blogs
Podcast Episde Recommendation: TWiST Solving Prescription Drug Pricing in the U.S. with Cost Plus Drugs and Capital Rx CEOs
So next up on my recommendation for informative podcast episodes is an episode of the podcast called " This Week in Startups " (TWiST) With Jason Calacanis& Molly Wood, spoecifically an episode which interviewsMark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company CEO and Founder Alex Oshmyansky AND the CEO of another startup aiming to disrupt the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) industry, Capital Rx CEO AJ Loiacono. Incidentally, the PBM startup offers a coupon-generating website and app of its own called CapitalRx Advantage Savings (or CRxAdvantage)https://capitalrxadvantage.com/ which is one worth saving on your smartphone.During the inte...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 29, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 capitalrx mark cuban podcast startups Source Type: blogs
Recommended Podcast: NPR's the " An Arm and a Leg " Show
With most of my recent podcast shares, I was pretty specific to note that I was recommending a particular podcast episode, but stopped short of recommending you subscribe to the entire podcast.However, there are at least are a few podcasts which I actuallyrecommend you subscribe to: one specifically is today ' s recommendation: a podcast known as the " Arm and a Leg " showhttps://armandalegshow.com/, which was started by an enterprising NPR reporter from an NPR station in Chicago by the name of Dan Weissman, who is also the podcast ' s creator& host, although his podcast is now produced with support from NPR and others...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 28, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 NPR podcast Source Type: blogs
Recommended Podcast Wholist Health Episode 205: What You Need to Know About Healthcare Middlemen
Today on my podcast recommendation is an episode from the podcast known as " Curate Your Health with Dr. Heather Hammerstedt "http://podcast.wholisthealth.com/ and more specifically, Episode 205: " What You Need to Know About Healthcare Middlemen " and that episode can be found athttp://podcast.wholisthealth.com/episode-205-what-you-need-to-know-about-healthcare-middlemen Its possible some will think otherwise, but I didn ' t find many of the other " Curate Your Health with Dr. Heather Hammerstedt " podcasts interesting enough to recommend recommend subscribi...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 24, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 GPO Marion P. Mass Maron Mass PBM podcast Practicing Physicians of America Wholist Source Type: blogs
Mark Cuban CostPlus Drug Company Is Distributing Roche Accu-Chek Testing Supplies
Taking a bit of a break from my recent podcast recommendations, but kind of an extension of the previous one about theMark Cuban CostPlus Drug Company, on October 11, 2022, Mark Cuban ' s startup known as the Mark Cuban CostPlus Drug Company ( " MCCPDC " , in different notices shared on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) announced a partnership with Roche Diabetes Care to bring CostPlus Drugs patients to buy Accu-Chek testing supplies through them at a lower price. Thecost of buying Accu-Chek test strips from CostPlus is $16.79 for a quantity of 50 test strips. That works out to a cost of $0.34 per strip. Price-...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 23, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 Accu-Chek cash price costplus drug company mark cuban Roche Source Type: blogs
Podcast Recommendation: " How I Built This Lab With Guy Raz " Episode With Mark Cuban on His CostPlus Drug Co.
So, next up on my podcast recommendation (and incidentally, I should note that my recommendations are for specific podcast episodes, not necessarily all episodes within a given podcast, although you may also like subscribing to certain podcasts as the content tends to be similar to an episode I ' m recommending) is one I only occasionally listen to if the topic sounds interesting. The podcast episode I am recommending today is one created by NPR called the " How I Built This Lab With Guy Raz " podcast (Guy Raz is the name of the host) in which he interviewed billionaire Mark Cuban. Mr. Cuban was on this particular pod...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 22, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: costplus drug company how i built this lab mark cuban NPR podcast Source Type: blogs
Podcast Recommendation: " How I Built This Lab With Guy Raz "
So, next up on my podcast recommendation (and incidentally, I should note that my recommendations are for specific podcast episodes, not necessarily all episodes within a given podcast, although you may also like subscribing to certain podcasts as the content tends to be similar to an episode I ' m recommending) is one I only occasionally listen to if the topic sounds interesting. The podcast episode I am recommending today is one created by NPR called the " How I Built This Lab With Guy Raz " podcast (Guy Raz is the name of the host) in which he interviewed billionaire Mark Cuban. Mr. Cuban was on this particular pod...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 22, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: costplus drug company how i built this lab mark cuban NPR podcast Source Type: blogs
Podcast Recommendation: Global Healthy Living Foundation " How I Built This Lab With Guy Raz "
So, next up on my podcast recommendation (and incidentally, I should note that my recommendations are for specific podcast episodes, not necessarily all episodes within a given podcast, although you may also like subscribing to certain podcasts as the content tends to e similar to an episode I ' m recommending) is one I only occasionally listen to if the topic sounds interesting. The podcast episode I am recommending today is one created by NPR called the " How I Built This Lab With Guy Raz " podcast (Guy Raz is the name of the host) in which he interviewed billionaire Mark Cuban. Mr. Cuban was on this particular podc...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 22, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: costplus drug company how i built this lab mark cuban NPR podcast Source Type: blogs
