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Finance
After Stalling for Months, HHS Plans to Accelerate 340B Changes
Hospitals suing over the delayed tweaks to the drug pricing program have asked a judge to force the Trump administration...
Innovation
Pending Opioid Legislation Opens Doors to Telehealth Innovation
Provisions in the law, which President Trump is expected to sign, would remove certain barriers to telehealth treatment that currently...
Strategy
In The Battle To Control Drug Costs, Old Patent Laws Get New Life
The strategies involve repurposing two obscure and rarely deployed workarounds in patent law. These ideas also are finding traction among...
VA Adding Opioid Antidote To Defibrillator Cabinets For Quicker Overdose Response
The project will expand nationwide in December, as VA hospitals across the country will add naloxone to their AED cabinets.
Drugmakers Play The Patent Game To Lock In Prices, Block Competitors
The patenting of a small change in how an existing drug is made or taken by patients is part of...
Clinical Care
Buried In Congress' Opioid Bill Is Protection For Personal Drug Imports
Advocates for importation of cheaper drugs raised a red flag, noting that policies are not permanent and could be changed...
Clinical Care
Black Patients Miss Out On Promising Cancer Drugs
A ProPublica analysis found that black people and Native Americans are under-represented in clinical trials of new drugs, even when...
Clinical Care
Is 'Precision Medicine' The Answer To Cancer? Not Precisely.
Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the patients they?ve saved with precision medicine. But the patients who succumb to...
Strategy
Insurer To Purdue Pharma: We Won't Pay For OxyContin Anymore
This move could reduce fraudulent prescriptions to street dealers or drug-seeking people with active addictions and cut down on costly...
Clinical Care
The Remedy For Surprise Medical Bills May Lie In Stitching Up Federal Law
While states increasingly pass laws to protect patients from balance bills as more hospitals and doctors go after patients to...
Strategy
PhRMA, AHA Trade Blame, Barbs on High Drug Prices
Drug makers launch PR campaign blaming higher drug costs on hospital markups. Hospitals call the claims 'a brazen misrepresentation of...
Clinical Care
Proposed House Bill Seeks to End Drug Price 'Gag Clause'
Pharmacists should be able to freely tell patients that a drug will cost less out-of-pocket.