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Middlemen Are Ripping Off State Medicaid Programs

In practice, PBMs cause many patients and insurers — including Medicaid plans — to overpay for drugs. Since the rebates and discounts are secret, PBMs have considerable leeway to overcharge the insurance plans and patients they ostensibly represent.

Why Consultative Selling Fails

When the sales ecosystem is organized around internal sales targets, you create a transactional sales team. Said another way, if you treat your customers like a number, they’ll return the favor. We identified eight core elements of the sales ecosystem…

The 10 Top Blue Chip Stocks For Value And Yield

Kelley Wright is a dividend specialist, a contributor to MoneyShow.com and the editor of the industry-leading advisory service Investment Quality Trends. His Timely Ten list represents his top ten current recommendations chosen from among his universe …

How A “Vital Station” Is Motivating Nicaraguans To Care About Their Health 

Many Nicaraguans have a reactive approach to healthcare, visiting a doctor only when they are very sick. Social entrepreneur Marcos Lacayo set up Estación Vital to change that.

How Machine Learning Can Help Prevent Hospitalizations

Preventable hospitalizations are a continuing major problem, and Clover Health is combining tech, health care, and financing to try to reduce them.

A Centene-WellCare Deal Takes A Bigger Share Of Booming Medicare Business

Centene’s proposed $17 Billion purchase of WellCare Health Plans gives the combined company a bigger share of the fast-growing Medicare Advantage business.

Rat Poison Is Killing San Francisco’s Parrots Of Telegraph Hill

A common rat poison has sickened or killed more than 150 feral parrots from the famous flock that resides in the Telegraph Hill area in north San Francisco

Outcomes-based Pricing Not A Panacea For High Priced Drugs

If the drug doesn’t work, you get your money back. Such a mantra can only improve the industry’s reputation.

What Aly Raisman, Alonzo Mourning Can Teach You About Resilience

Here are 8 lessons on how to build mental and emotional resiliency from the NBA’s and Kaiser Permanente’s Total Health Forum

Report: Obamacare Provider Centene May Buy Rival WellCare

Fast-growing health insurer Centene is considering a purchase of rival WellCare Health Plans, according to several reports.