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DTx Part I: Identifying Optimal Payment Models for Digital Therapeutics

According to the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA), digital therapeutics (DTx) are products that deliver “software-generated therapeutic interventions directly to patients to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease.”1 DTx products...

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Germany Paves the Way for Reimbursement of Digital Health Care Apps

In Germany, doctors could potentially be prescribing health apps as medicines as early as 2020. This is one of the main objectives of the draft bill...

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Escalated DRG Payment Model Pilot in China Expected to Pose a Genuine Threat to Innovators

As a critical element of accelerating the healthcare payment reform, the pilot of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) in 30 major cities across China was...

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Possibility for Examination to be Included in the SHI Fee Scale Brings More Certainty for Reimbursement for New Diagnostics in Germany

Manufacturers can now have more certainty about the process of inclusion of a new laboratory, new human-genetic, or new tumor-genetic diagnostics in...

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Escalated DRG Payment Model Pilot in China Expected to Pose a Genuine Threat to Innovators

As a critical element of accelerating the healthcare payment reform, the pilot of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) in 30 major cities across China was...

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First Meeting of the Italian Regional Purchasing Centers

Italian public healthcare structures can buy medical devices only via tenders. Up to 2016, competitive pricing was the main rule for tender winners....

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New Independent Medical Review Board for Germany

For medical device and diagnostic innovators, a planned organizational change in review boards for Germany’s Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) could...

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