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Premium hikes, plan redesigns and other efforts from the Minnesota-based company to wrangle medical spending bore fruit in the first quarter. UnitedHealth’s stock jumped accordingly.
Read full article →Hayley Park will oversee BSCA’s prescription drug programs. The insurer has worked to overhaul its pharmacy management model in a bid to lower drug costs.
Read full article →Hospitals and clinics told regulators that switching to rebates in the 340B drug discount program would impose costs that would outweigh the program’s benefits.
Read full article →The retailer, which at one point had 14 MedWise sites, is divesting its nine-location network to Saint Francis Health System.
Read full article →The insurer accused the radiology group of gaming the No Surprises Act to reap higher reimbursement. A judge tossed the case last week, saying Aetna needed to raise its complaints during the dispute resolution process.
Read full article →Republicans largely praised the HHS secretary’s track record during a marathon of House hearings last week, but some GOP lawmakers raised concerns about proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Additional antihypertensive treatment with a three-drug polypill benefitted patients after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), the placebo-controlled TRIDENT trial found. Among ICH survivors already on good background therapy randomized...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The investigational benzamide antipsychotic N-methyl amisulpride (LB-102) led to significant symptom improvement among hospitalized adults with acute schizophrenia, a randomized trial showed. In this phase II study, the mean...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- While brand-name pantoprazole (Protonix) costs $200 for a 30-day supply on TrumpRx, the same generic prescription costs just $16.99 at Costco, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said during a hearing on the proposed HHS budget...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Suicide by poisoning with the common food preservative sodium nitrite and its oxidised metabolite, nitrate, is disproportionately high among young men, U.K. researchers warned. (BMJ Public Health) Meanwhile, a Canadian man facing...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO -- Injecting the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab (Opdivo) directly into high-risk oral precancers proved safe and reduced lesion size in the vast majority of patients enrolled in a small phase I study, allowing some to avoid...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Suicide deaths among adolescents and young adults declined across the U.S. after the launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in 2022, according to an observational study. From July 2022 through December 2024, 35,529 suicides...
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