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Mashup Score: 13
Emergency physicians, contracted through TeamHealth, have pointed to staffing, quality concerns
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Mashup Score: 4U.S. Probes High Generic Drug Prices - 10 day(s) ago
The U.S. government is investigating whether the consolidation of health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacies is fueling high drug costs. The Departm
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Mashup Score: 25Commentary: Pharmacy benefit managers, not Big Pharma, responsible for high drug prices - 12 day(s) ago
Flovent was pulled from shelves, but don’t blame its maker: GSK chose to switch to a lower-priced generic. The pharmacy benefit managers made more money covering the more expensive version — and that’s why they pulled it from the shelves, writes two experts.
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Mashup Score: 30
Casper pharmacist Eric Saul says small independent pharmacies are getting squeezed out by super-large companies that squeeze the little guy with mafia-like tactics.
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Mashup Score: 1Prime Healthcare completes $350 million purchase of 5 hospitals - 16 day(s) ago
The purchase agreement, announced in February, consists of $250 million in cash and a $100 million interest-bearing mortgage note.
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Mashup Score: 31
In an effort to slow the rate at which independent pharmacies have closed, the Iowa House advanced legislation to regulate the amount a pharmacy is reimbursed by pharmacy benefit managers.
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Mashup Score: 9Bringing Much-Needed Transparency and Accountability to Indigent Care Programs | The Heritage Foundation - 2 month(s) ago
Before the 20th century, medical care for the poor was primarily provided by private charities, often with a religious affiliation, or by hospitals and clinics funded by local governments. As hospitals evolved into the locus of medical care for the general population, charitable and publicly funded hospitals increasingly served more affluent patients as well. In response, those hospitals adopted financial strategies that effectively cross-subsidized the treatment of indigent patients with fees charged to patients who paid for their own care either directly or through insurance.
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Mashup Score: 39
(Bloomberg) — A cyberattack that has disrupted Change Healthcare’s computer networks for nearly a week is creating a growing administrative problem for pharmacies and health-care providers around the nation.Most Read from BloombergHow Much Wealth You Need to Join the Richest 1% Around the WorldApple to Wind Down Electric Car Effort After Decadelong OdysseySupreme Court Immunity Case Jeopardizes Trump Trial Pre-ElectionThis Is Where New Migrants Are Going When They Reach the USSingapore’s Riches
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Mashup Score: 11Experts say scale of Change cyberattack shows risk of centralized claims processing - 2 month(s) ago
The scale of the Change Healthcare cyberattack shows the risk of centralized claims processing, experts told STAT.
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Mashup Score: 10U.S. Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth - 2 month(s) ago
Investigators from the Justice Department have been interviewing industry officials who compete with the healthcare giant.
Source: www.wsj.comCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
Hospitals buying hospitals and becoming large health systems. Buying doctors and making them employees. Doctors unionizing and striking. Where does this go? https://t.co/sELyuLWYKH