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...The FTC alleges that its “pay-to-play” adverts force sellers to spend more for top billing....
...Envision Healthcare, a KKR-owned company that employs doctors who staff emergency rooms and anaesthesiology departments in hundreds of US hospitals, sued UnitedHealthcare in 2018 in a dispute over billing...
...The test for EA is whether the game will remain as popular without the Fifa name. It’s being renamed EA Sports FC, by the way....
...Athenahealth was founded by Jonathan Bush, nephew of former president George HW Bush, and specialises in digitising health records and in electronic claims and billing....
...The companies contracts and billing and take a share of the insurance or patient payment, which one doctor told the Financial Times can be as high as 50 per cent....
...Within months, Veritas and Evergreen Coast Capital announced their plan to buy Athenahealth for $5.7bn and merge it with the former GE business, which had been renamed Virence Health....
...Apple is also targeting health and wellness through the Watch — an area that Cook has promised will be the company’s biggest legacy....
...Even if she wanted to, current San Francisco health restrictions forbid Ms Blum from renting out her spare room while she herself is staying in the house....
...The top-of-the-range ZoomX Vaporfly Next%, which retails for £240, is living up to Nike’s billing as “the fastest shoe we’ve ever made”....
...This appeals to people who are not vegetarians or vegans but are cutting back on their meat consumption for health reasons or out of concern for the environment....
...Coming into Thursday trading, EA was up 22 per cent year-to-date....
...The company was a buyout vehicle for small, private healthcare billing and back-office operations, with an opaque ownership structure....
...In a sign of the branding savvy of the start-ups, Impossible Foods’ distribution deal with Burger King in the US is for the “Impossible Whopper”, giving the new brand double-billing with the fast-food chain...
...Related links: The curious case of Constellation Health -- FT Alphaville A region of the financial celestial sphere just disappeared -- FT Alphaville Ex-Blackstone dealmaker stumbles in first solo...
...Fourteen of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India, according to the World Health Organization....
...The group’s billings – which represent future revenues that have been invoiced to customers – rose 15.8 per cent to $164.3m....
...This is a rather convoluted story that begins back at the end of September, when Constellation Healthcare Technologies, Inc, an American supplier of medical billing systems quoted on the AIM market in London...
...Apple’s patent filings have hinted at expanding its AirPods, dubbed “hearables” by some, to include health-monitoring capabilities....
...Its billing of Medicare, product recall and a five month delay in the filing of its annual report after auditors found “material weaknesses” over internal controls....
...The plaques have long been given star billing; perhaps the spotlight will now turn on untangling tau....
...Alere has had to deal with separate criminal probes regarding bribery and billing practices....
...As in the second quarter, its revenues were boosted by strong growth in the Optum health services arm, whose activities include, billing services and data analysis for healthcare groups....
...The two groups are billing the tie-up as an all-stock “merger of equals” but IMS Health shareholders will end up owning slightly more of the enlarged company, which will be called Quintiles IMS Holdings....
...For instance, western technologists can “take for granted” infrastructure such as high bandwidth internet and online billing built on the assumption that people have credit cards....
...“I had to go in front of the billing department and the chief financial officer and pull my shirt up and show them I did not have a gaping scar on my stomach,” he says....
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