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Certainly, a free booking platform with upfront prices, clinches $2.3M

Fierce Healthcare

Certainly claims to be the first marketplace for patients to book doctors with their insurance while avoiding any surprise bills. Certainly Health, a new patient-facing platform focused on upfront prices, has received $2.3 million in funding. It's free for patients.

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Fixing America’s health insurance woes is ‘actually very simple,’ says leading economist

STAT

In their recent book “ We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care ,” Finkelstein and Stanford economist Liran Einav describe how years of research have led them to the conclusion that the best way forward is for the U.S. Fixing the U.S. health care system can seem like a herculean task.

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A look at the first year of Blue Shield of California's Virtual Blue plan

Fierce Healthcare

And with that first year on the books, the insurer is seeing positive results in Virtual Blue, it revealed Friday. . | A year ago, Blue Shield of California joined forces with Accolade and TeleMed2U to launch Virtual Blue, a new plan that centers on virtual care for members with the goal of boosting access.

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STAT+: More hospital and outpatient visits expected to persist through fall and winter

STAT

Health care providers and health insurance companies are closing the books on their third quarters, and one major question continues to hang over them: How much care is everyone actually getting, now that Covid-19 isn’t scaring so many away from doctors and hospitals? Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: CVS Health sees Medicare Advantage patients seek more care, eating into profits

STAT

A persistent theme for health insurance companies throughout 2023 has been their Medicare Advantage members using more care than their actuaries projected, which has been eating into the profits they get from federally funded health care premiums.

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STAT+: Diagnosed with cancer, a pharmaceutical executive became a patient advocate and changed drug development. It took decades

STAT

I had good insurance. Her book, “ Fatal to Fearless ,” was blurbed by everyone from newsman Tom Brokaw to research scientist Eric Topol. Thanks in part to better treatments that help patients stay alive, the number of people in the U.S. who live with myeloma has increased 80% to 180,000. And even I messed up.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Sanofi cuts price on a popular insulin by 78%; Califf criticizes insurers for doing too little on drug research

STAT

You could get a head start and book a much-needed getaway, or curl up in front of the telly and binge watch. by 78% and also place a $35 cap on out-of-pocket costs for commercially insured patients who take the treatment, which is called Lantus , STAT writes. The So far, the rotation includes this , this and this. But be safe.