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...Instead, only about 5,600 patients had been approved for treatment by early April, according to a registry by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shared with the Financial Times....
...The decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide coverage for the treatment is crucial to enable a wide rollout....
...The US Department of Justice accused it of ordering unnecessary tests to rack up bills to private insurers, Medicare and Medicaid, and giving kickbacks to doctors....
...In the wake of the controversy over the FDA approval of Biogen’s aducanumab, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said only patients taking part in a clinical trial would benefit from reimbursement...
...The administration is imposing separate mandates on federal employees and contractors, as well as healthcare groups that perform work under the publicly run Medicare and Medicaid insurance schemes....
...I mean, they were in Malta, they were Puerto Rico, they were in Switzerland....
...In early April, the company convened its new customer advisory board, composed of guests and business partners, in San Juan, Puerto Rico....
...association BIO and chief executive of Ovid Therapeutics....
...Together the two companies will become one of the key managers of US government-sponsored healthcare plans, including Medicaid and Medicare, for 22m people across the 50 states....
...Spending on pharmaceutical drugs is forecast to rise an average of 6.3 per cent a year from 2017 to 2026, according to the US government’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services....
...A group of hospitals from Alabama, New York, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico launched a class-action lawsuit in 2017 against Baxter and Hospira Infusion, alleging they engaged in a “conspiracy” to “artificially...
...Insurers have been adding customers to their Medicare Advantage plans for senior citizens....
...The US government and humanitarian agencies used it to map the impact of deadly hurricanes in Florida, Puerto Rico and Texas last autumn....
...’s expansion of Medicaid....
...You have stage payments, because they won't pay you all the money upfront in case you go off to Puerto Rico and don't build the place....
...While it is effectively impossible to directly short sell Puerto Rico’s $70bn of bonded debt, it would have been quite possible to dump the shares of municipal bond insurance companies who guaranteed some...
...Medicare, Medicaid and other public agencies account for more than half the $374bn Americans spent last year on drugs....
...“The managed care industry has a huge and evolving opportunity in Obamacare, the expansion of Medicaid, and the privatisation of Medicare,” says Ana Gupte, a Leerink analyst....
...Popular Inc, the biggest bank in Puerto Rico with about $36bn in assets, cruised through the test, saying that its tier one common equity would drop as low as 11.4 per cent of assets under the most stressful...
...Four fifths of all journeys in this country are by road, yet we rank behind Puerto Rico and Namibia in the quality of our network....
...(Bloomberg) “Puerto Rico, whose bonds face a downgrade to junk, plans to issue long-term debt in the next few weeks, according to a spokeswoman.” It will be its first sale since August....
...To take advantage of the new Puerto Rican law, new immigrants must not have lived there in the previous 15 years, must spend at least 183 days in Puerto Rico each year, and prove they have substantial family...
...To take advantage of the new law a person must spend at least 183 days in Puerto Rico each year, and prove they have substantial family and social connections on the island....
...With the exception of special cases such as Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico, where the US has a long and sometimes turbulent history, the US disengagement has frustrated local politicians, given that many Caribbean...
...Proponents of the plan have been touting a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found greater competition between Medicare and private health plans could lower overall medical...
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