Friday, May 02, 2025

CVS Caremark's Preferred Brand Switch from OneTouch to Accu-Chek in 2025

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I recently received notice from Aetna (the insurance company which is owned by CVS Health) that on July 1, 2025, its Pharmacy Benefit Manage...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

My Prediction About Abbott Libre FORCING Dexcom to Introduce a Longer-Wearing CGM Sensor Was Right

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It's nice when my predictions prove correct. One example: following the ADA 84th Scientific Sessions in 2024, I made a prediction (see h...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Stocking Up On Artificially-Inflated Diabetes Supplies Ahead of Travel in 2025

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In 2025, I will be traveling to East Asia (separately, I'm also going to Europe for a shorter visit at a different time in 2025) for a f...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Sanofi Gets Creative Now That the PBM Kickback Scheme for Insulin is Dead

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Look for Sanofi Insulins at Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Retail Store Partners Soon Sanofi Aventis LLC, which is the U.S. division of t...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

FDA Approves Merilog (insulin-aspart-szjj) as First Prandial Insulin Biosimilar Product for Treatment of Diabetes

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My followers might recall my groundbreaking January 8, 2007 article (see that at https://blog.sstrumello.com/2007/01/business-of-diabetes-re...
Monday, February 10, 2025

What Crains Modern Healthcare Says about Rep. Dr. Greg Murphy (R-NC) and how the FTC should break-up United Healthcare

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Last October [2024], I shared how I harnessed AI tools to retrieve article content hidden behind a paywall. In particular in my post about t...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Using Diabetes as a "Disability" to Claim Certain Benefits

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You've likely heard of stories of people who use diabetes as an excuse to avoid waiting in long queues at Disneyland or Disney World att...
Monday, January 20, 2025

PBM Reform Under a New Trump Admin: A Clash of Titans and a Broken System Badly in Need of Reform

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My followers might recall that back in 2022, I first noted Ge Bai. She had been interviewed by a podcast episode which I shared, you can cat...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Navitus 2023 Drug Trend Report

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You may recall that in July 2023, I shared news (see my post at https://blog.sstrumello.com/2023/07/navitus-2022-drug-trend-report.html for...