February 2019

On Tuesday, February 26, 2019, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on drug costs and potential policy solutions to bring…

While the headlines of the year tend to focus on the fact that some pharmaceutical companies are raising their list prices,…

In November 2018, the United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule with the intent to…

A new report released by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) outlined new efforts by the group to protect the…

On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and Centers for Medicare &…

The Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed to pay $269.2 million to settle two separate whistleblower lawsuits accusing it of civil…

In January 2019, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced that her office settled with Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., for…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has come under fire for what some consider a slow implementation of the…

Reasonable people may disagree about whether our currently divided government is a good thing or a bad thing, especially as it…

Smartphones have become ubiquitous today. Need a cab? There’s an app (or several) for that. Need to order groceries to be…