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San Francisco
Joined March 2009
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Ion Feldman retweeted
The PBM hired by TriCare, is out there trying to kill independent pharmacies by asking them to do a deal that pays them less than cost and ZERO for the work to actually fill the prescription. The Indy pharmacies are in a catch 22. They want to support all the service members in their communities, that put it on the line for our country. But the PBM doesn’t care about those local pharmacies. Here is an example. Eliquis -      Pharmacy cost: $576.57 PBM payment to Phamracy= $543.16 Pharmacy Net Loss = $33.41 It’s the same for ALL BRAND MEDs If you want to see your local pharmacy able to support our service members and their families, without going out of business, please call your Senator and ask them to do something to change the PBM that the DOD works with. Use a Pass Through PBM and save taxpayers billions and keep alive thousands of pharmacies If you have examples of PBM greed killing Indy pharmacies and /or costing taxpayers money, tag me and I’ll repost it
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PBMs are highly concentrated and vertically integrated across the pharma supply chain. The below image shows their corporate structures, and the percentages of prescriptions filled in the US. 2/13
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Ion Feldman retweeted
Anyone surprised by this ? Please share with every CEO, CFO, And HR person you know. If you are a shareholder or wall street analyst, ask your portfolio companies, who their PBM is and not if they are being ripped off, but how badly. This should be a question in every quarterly earnings call. “How much can you add to the bottom line by changing to a pass through PBM” @cnbc @MadMoneyOnCNBC @jimcramer
The FTC just released an interim report on pharmacy benefit managers, the dominant middlemen who hike the cost of prescriptions, including overcharging patients for cancer drugs. 1/13
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Retweeting this unusually bad argument for humanity's safety would be unfair play on my part IF HE WASN'T RUNNING A MAJOR AI LAB.
Replying to @ylecun
And the idea that intelligent systems will inevitably want to take over, dominate humans, or just destroy humanity through negligence is preposterous. They would have to be specifically designed to do so. Whereas we will obviously design them to not do so.
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Ion Feldman retweeted
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Rightway’s members now have direct access to all medications available through @costplusdrugs, which offers some of the lowest prices in the market. The more we maximize access to low-cost options, the faster we can drive down U.S. drug spending. prn.to/3LKfvJ0
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Ion Feldman retweeted
Rightway’s members now have direct access to all medications available through @costplusdrugs, which offers some of the lowest prices in the market. The more we maximize access to low-cost options, the faster we can drive down U.S. drug spending. prn.to/3LKfvJ0
Ion Feldman retweeted
You need 2 types of people to keep early-stage startups from stagnating: - someone who’ll shamelessly sell the product before it’s fully ready to be sold - someone who’s embarrassed by this and will push to improve the product faster
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the worst part about NYC is definitely the cars. this is pretty obviously the case, too. it's the one thing keeping it back from being the greatest city in the world.
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What are your favorite arguments for - and against - regular bike helmet usage?
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Ion Feldman retweeted
If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you launched too late
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I'm proud of what we're building. Come join us!
#Rightway is proud to be named to the NYC Digital Health 100 for the third year in a row. @JordanDFeldman sat down with the team at @NYCHBL to share his insights on the rapidly changing digital health industry in NYC and beyond. News here: prn.to/3HmOkAR #NYCDH100
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Glad to have you onboard @mcuban. This is more maverick than your basketball thing. Come join us @rightwayhc as we reinvent the PBM space.
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy Thursday that offers more than 100 generic drugs at an affordable price with a goal of being “radically transparent” in its price negotiations with drug companies. trib.al/IjDBb8Q
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The thing I don't get about the "car parking is my right as a New Yorker" people is their inability to do the math. I live on a street with 20 parking spaces. I live in an apartment building with 50 units, and it is not the only building on the block.
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.@NYCMayorsOffice @galeabrewer @CMCarlinaRivera @keithpowersnyc @cbsix Please support a vibrant and green economic recovery for the New Third Avenue Boulevard from 24th Street to 42nd Street. p2a.co/eefalso
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These drivers all had a choice of where to double park, and they all chose to threaten the safety of cyclists over inconvenience other drivers. Paint is not protection.
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Ion Feldman retweeted
I think healthcare tech might be where fintech was ~5 years ago - tech native people are increasingly decision makers in health systems - so much operational inefficiency in healthcare - startups are landing surprisingly large deals in eg hospitals Seems like a promising set up
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this is where we’re at and it hurts.
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Looking forward to my conversation with @RightwayHC during #ReWorkHealth. We'll be discussing healthcare innovation and the industry trends that are here to stay. Come join! reworkhealth.com
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Ion Feldman retweeted
The stage has been set for a complete rebirth of our healthcare system. Check out @JordanDFeldman's latest blog post and tune into #ReWorkHealth next week to catch his take on this current “healthcare renaissance.” Register at reworkhealth.com. #healthcare #covid19
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