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Gilead Sciences' steep discounts and rebates on Harvoni are hitting the drugmaker's bottom line. And in other pharmaceutical news, The Wall Street Journal reports on upheaval at Valeant.
In a strikingly busy week for the industry, more than $40 billion worth of deals were announced Thursday. While the activity all on one day is more of a coincidence, the movement toward pairing up is not.
The ballot issue in November asks voters if they want to establish a taxpayer-financed public health system that guarantees coverage for everyone at an estimated cost of $38 billion a year. Also in health law news are reports on a new poll, insurers' efforts on the online marketplaces and possible premium increases next year.
The legislation would also expedite the removal of Department of Veterans Affairs employees found guilty of misconduct, give the VA secretary additional hiring-and-firing authority and reduce benefits for senior executives who have committed certain crimes. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, the bill to increase access to overdose antidote naloxone is moving through the House and Florida's delegation is pushing Gov. Rick Scott to explain revised HIV numbers.
The plan would reduce payments to doctors and hospitals for some outpatient drugs.
Hispanic birth rates dropped 51 percent, while those for black teens are down 44 percent, but the white teen birth rate is only half as high.
People who are still incarcerated are not eligible for the program, but there had been questions previously about their eligibility once they moved to a halfway house. The administration also wants correction departments to begin signing up prisoners before they are released to help ease the transition.
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News outlets report on health issues in New York, Florida, Ohio, California, Maryland, Illinois, Vermont, Wisconsin, Minnesota and New Mexico,
Media outlets also offer news out of state legislatures in Texas, Montana, Connecticut, Tennessee, Iowa and Kansas.
The legislature did not fund Medicaid at the level that the governor requested, but one lawmaker says his plan for splitting up the oil settlement could help. News outlets also report on Medicaid developments in Kansas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Florida.
The Royal College of Physicians, a major British medical organization, broke with American public health officials, saying that the benefits far outweigh the harms with e-cigarettes.
“We’re ready to expand, we have new opportunities and new funding sources. But it’s all sort of moot if we don’t have the people to provide the care," says Becky Vaughn, vice president of addictions at the National Council for Behavioral Health. In other news, a Baltimore addiction treatment center inspires other states to adapt its collaborative model, bipartisan legislation addressing drug addiction passes through the House Judiciary Committee, and Prince's death may shine a spotlight on the crisis.
The legislation would also expand VA clinic operating hours and medicine services. However, New Hampshire's Veterans Choice program is facing problems, with some providers so frustrated they are refusing to participate.
Advocates are targeting rules that require nurses be licensed in each state they work, but they will come up against a powerful opponent: the nurses' unions.
A knee replacement in Riverside, Calif., is about $27,000 less expensive than it is in Sacramento. And that's just one example of the wide discrepancies analysts found when they looked at costs across the country.
The British drugmaker has also found that ending doctor payments did not undermine drug sales. Meanwhile, Sanofi bids $9.3 billion for cancer biotech Medivation and Vertex's cystic fibrosis drug sees mixed results.
The suit grew out of allegations that Wyeth, which Pfizer acquired, had hidden from Medicaid officials the discounts that it was giving hospitals on ulcer drugs.
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