Hospitals have adopted a take-no-prisoners approach in the fight with Big Pharma over the 340B drug discount program. Can this strategy hold as Congress, oversight agencies, the courts and the Trump administration ratchet up scrutiny of the program?
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Health systems look to mend fractured consumer experience
The healthcare industry has largely been unable to meet consumers’ expectations, but a group of health system and physician group executives shared how they plan to change that at Modern Healthcare’s Consumerism Symposium.
Insurers deploy data to advance population health management
Armed with comprehensive data, insurers are ramping up their efforts to control costs through population health management.
Researchers combine Legos and a smartphone to create nerve gas detector
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin built a device using a smartphone and a box made of Legos that can detect nerve gas.
Q&A with Amazon’s Chris Holt on testing a consumer-first model in healthcare
Long before Amazon announced its joint healthcare venture and PillPack acquisition, the e-commerce giant has been slowly growing its portfolio of medical supplies offered through its Amazon Business platform.
LifePoint’s share price spikes 40% on report of buyout talks
LifePoint Health’s share price jumped 40% in after-hours trading Friday on news the company is in acquisition talks with a private equity firm.
Pfizer’s biosimilar for chemo patients OK’d to vie against Amgen’s Neupogen
Nivestym is not the first biosimilar of Neupogen, which helps chemotherapy patients recover, but it reflects the Food and Drug Administration’s emphasis on bringing more biosimilars to market.
Advanced practice and nurse practitioners bring more profit, productivity to medical practices
Physician-owned practices with more non-physicians earned $100,748 more in net income, according to a new report from the Medical Group Management Association.
HHS wins delay in Medicare backlog case
A federal judge has granted HHS more time to respond to a series of ideas filed by the American Hospital Association to reduce the denied Medicare claims backlog. The provider trade group had attempted to fight the extension in court.
Former VA official named new CMO of Ascension Medical Group
Ascension Medical Group has picked former VA official Dr. Baligh Yehia as the organization’s chief medical officer.
