by Jordana Choucair | Oct 26, 2021 | Payers
Business groups are asking the White House to delay implementing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The National Retail Federation, the American Trucking Associations, and the Retail Industry Leaders Association asked officials to give businesses 90 days...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 26, 2021 | Life Sciences
Moderna released trial results for its COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 6 to 11, saying it provides a “robust” immune response after two doses. The company said that two 50-microgram doses of the vaccine, half the dosage given to adults, produced...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 26, 2021 | D.C. News
The Biden administration said it will invest $70 million to boost the availability and lower costs of rapid, over-the-counter COVID-19 tests in the U.S. The administration plans to make more high-quality, accurate, and reliable over-the-counter tests available through...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 25, 2021 | Transition to Value
CMS released the fourth evaluation report on The Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (NGACO) model, revealing that the program saved Medicare $637 million in 2020. After factoring in $909 million in shared savings and other payouts to NGACOs, the model was...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 25, 2021 | Providers
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban and the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH) are each launching new pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) amid criticism that PBMs aren’t transparent about how much they save consumers. Cuban’s company will include...
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