To persuade payers to cover the costs of new cures for the hepatitis C virus, drug makers have deployed a potent new ally, a company whose marquee figures are leading economists and healthcare experts at the nation's top universities.
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Prior Authorization Still a 'Pain Point' for Providers
by MedPage Today
An AMA survey found that practices reported submitting an average of 37 prior authorization requests each week, with an average of 16 hours of physician and staff time to complete them. From MedPage Today.
Big Pharma Quietly Enlists Academics to Justify $1,000-Per-Day Drugs
by ProPublica
To persuade payers to cover the costs of new cures for the hepatitis C virus, drug makers have deployed a potent new ally, a company whose marquee figures are leading economists and healthcare experts at the nation's top universities.
 

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AHIP: Repeal Health Insurance Tax Now to Lower Premiums
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Lawyers: ICE detainee with brain tumor removed from hospital
Source: The Hill
Republican health plans have winners and losers, just like Obamacare
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Aetna to spend $3.3B buying back stock
Source: News & Observer / Associated Press
Second Theranos lab has blood-testing license revoked
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Cancer hospital wants new deal from GA lawmakers
Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
DaVita steered poor dialysis patients to private insurers to pump up profits, lawsuit says
Source: Denver Post
Opinion: A healthcare change that could prove catastrophic
Source: Washington Post
Tenet buys out landlord of its Palm Beach hospital for $43M
Source: South Florida Business Journal
San Antonio hospital system names new CEO
Source: San Antonio Business Journal
CA nurses rally for bill on first state-run single-payer health plan
Source: ABC News
Billionaire philanthropist goes after drug prices
Source: Bloomberg.com
 

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