by Jordana Choucair | Nov 23, 2021 | D.C. News
Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the Biden administration is investing $1.5 billion to address the health care worker shortage in underserved communities. The funding, which comes in part from the COVID-19 relief package passed earlier this year, will go to...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 23, 2021 | D.C. News
The White House announced that more than 90 percent of federal employees covered by a presidential COVID-19 vaccine mandate have received at least one vaccine dose ahead of a Monday deadline. In all, more than 95 percent of federal workers are in compliance with the...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 23, 2021 | M&A
Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman will purchase Athenahealth for $17 billion. It is the second time in less than three years the cloud-based electronic medical record (EHR) company has changed ownership. In February 2019, Athenhealth went private after it was...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 23, 2021 | Payers
Humana announced it reached a value-based care agreement with Minnesota-based health system Allina Health for the insurer’s Medicare Advantage (MA) members. The multiyear agreement will include emphasizing reimbursement to physicians based on health outcomes of...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 22, 2021 | D.C. News
The House passed President Biden’s roughly $2 trillion spending package to expand health care and bolster the nation’s social safety net by a vote of 220 to 213. Despite the pharmaceutical industry’s last-minute lobbying efforts, the drug pricing deal that would allow...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 22, 2021 | Life Sciences
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE said that their COVID-19 vaccine was 100 percent effective at preventing infections among adolescents ages 12 to 15 within four months of their second doses, and that the shot showed no safety concerns for at least six months afterward. The...
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