Thursday, March 17, 2022: Payers

Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates and other payers filed a lawsuit against Walgreens for knowingly overcharging payers and customers for prescription drugs. The lawsuit alleges that Walgreens submitted claims with artificially inflated drug prices for more than a...

Wednesday, March 16, 2022: D.C. News

White House officials warned Tuesday that cutbacks in the U.S. pandemic response could happen as early as next week if Congress doesn’t pass new emergency COVID-19 funding. According to the officials, without the funding the federal government will delay buying...

Wednesday, March 16, 2022: D.C. News

A Senate committee voted 20-2 to advance a bipartisan pandemic preparedness bill that seeks to apply COVID-19 lessons to future health threats. The bill includes measures to strengthen the medical supply chain, bolster disease surveillance, and require that the Senate...

Wednesday, March 16, 2022: Health IT

Google Health and EHR vendor Meditech plan to integrate Care Studio, an EHR search tool that Google first piloted with Ascension, into Meditech’s Expanse EHR. The goal of the partnership is to pull and organize information from different systems to give doctors...