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Nevada business groups launch association health plan
Three chambers of commerce in Nevada will be among the first small-business groups in the country to offer an association health plan, taking advantage of a new Trump administration rule to sidestep Affordable Care Act rules and offer cheaper plans.
Feds propose lowering opioid production quotes by 10% in 2019
The Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency proposed to reduce manufacturing quotas for the six most frequently abused opioids by 10% in 2019 amid the historic epidemic.
Montefiore Health System continues to look beyond the Bronx
The board of St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers has voted to begin exclusive negotiations to join Montefiore Health System, four years after it entered a clinical affiliation with the health system.
Birth control app highlights emerging health tech market
A mobile fertility app is the first ever digital contraceptive device to win FDA marketing approval. But reports of unwanted pregnancies and investigations in Europe have raised questions about marketing what is essentially a health monitor as a…
Editorial: Healthcare PACs voting for incumbent protection
Many Democratic congressional hopefuls are making healthcare their top talking point for the upcoming midterm elections, which is not surprising given the low unemployment rate. The early donations from political action groups lean toward the…
Healthcare saw Q2 reprieve from record bankruptcies
The healthcare industry saw fewer bankruptcies in the second quarter of 2018 compared with the first, according to law firm Polsinelli, breaking with eight quarters of record or near-record highs. But one report author doesn’t expect the lull to…
FDA approves first EpiPen generic
Teva Pharmaceutical’s product is the first direct generic copy of the EpiPen, the life-saving automatic epinephrine injector that fueled a national debate on rising pharmaceutical prices.
NYU School of Medicine will provide free tuition to students
NYU School of Medicine will provide free tuition to all current and future students to alleviate the burden of crippling debt on physicians. It’s the first major medical school in the U.S. to provide free education to all students.
Rebates don’t correlate to drug price spikes, AHIP study says
As scrutiny tightens on drug middlemen and the significance of their role in spiking drug costs within Medicare Part D, health insurers are hitting back with data that show the most expensive drugs offer the lowest rebates.
Officials remove special rules for gene therapy experiments
A special National Institutes of Health oversight panel will no longer review all gene therapy applications and will instead take on a broader advisory role, as the treatment quickly becomes an established form of medical care with no extraordinary…
