{"id":66528,"date":"2020-01-31T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/?p=66528"},"modified":"2020-02-05T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T23:22:11","slug":"pricing-drugs-on-international-index-may-cause-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/pricing-drugs-on-international-index-may-cause-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Pricing drugs on international index may cause concern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66529 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drug_pricing-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drug_pricing-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/drug_pricing.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Access to affordable health care is one of rural America\u2019s most serious challenges.\u00a0 Limited resources and high patient loads overwork rural physicians.\u00a0 In rural areas, there are 13 practitioners per 10,000 people. \u00a0Compare that to urban areas where the ratio is 31 practitioners per 10,000 people.\u00a0 Rural physicians provide a much wider scope of services to their patients than their urban-based counterparts.\u00a0 There is concern that the International Pricing Index Model for drugs will aggravate shortages of clinical drugs for vulnerable rural populations who would not be able to afford health care without Medicare support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Health-Care-XCENDA-Rural-physician-profile_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Access to affordable health care is one of rural America\u2019s most serious challenges.\u00a0 Limited resources and high patient loads overwork rural physicians.\u00a0 In rural areas, there are 13 practitioners per 10,000 people. \u00a0Compare that to urban areas where the ratio is 31 practitioners per 10,000 people.\u00a0 Rural physicians provide a much wider scope of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/pricing-drugs-on-international-index-may-cause-concern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pricing drugs on international index may cause concern&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-grange-news","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - 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