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...The reaction underlined that, frequently, it’s not the heft of US exchange traded funds that drive bitcoin’s price....
...rates for its physicians’ services....
...The company was also fighting with insurance titan UnitedHealthcare over reimbursement policies....
...actually treated by less-qualified staff, so that TeamHealth could claim reimbursement at a higher rate....
...But in today’s financialised healthcare system, it’s more likely to be a private equity-owned “physician staffing” company....
...We had more than 200 medicines that were granted accelerated approval, thereby giving patients and their physicians the choice,” said Chirfi Guindo, an executive at Biogen....
...Its new owners are betting it can continue to increase revenues at double-digit rates and win more customers in the electronic medical records market — particularly among physicians and independent practices...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 3. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Babylon also has contracts with South Korea’s Samsung and China’s Tencent, and raised money from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund as part of a $550m fundraise in August 2019....
...Some experts predict it will quickly become Medicare’s largest expenditure for physician-administered drugs. The potential costs go well beyond just the medicine....
...Should Qiagen investors not approve the deal, the company is now liable to pay $95m to Thermo Fisher an “expense reimbursement” fee....
...Admitted to hospital for hyper-sedation, physicians recommended she stop using the spray — but her doctor continued to prescribe it....
...Grab, a south-east Asian superapp with investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, has expanded into an array of services including business loans and insurance....
...Teckro raised $25m from investors including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund in February....
...Some analysts said clunky technology left the company vulnerable to competition from better technologies using big data and artificial intelligence to help guide physicians....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on May 5 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The latter received a reimbursement for a tax they never paid, explained Christoph Spengel, a professor specialising in tax at the University of Mannheim, adding that such a transaction was a “real robbery...
...But asking suppliers for reimbursements from several years ago is highly unusual in the industry and raises questions over the state of the business’s finances....
...Amgen said last year that three-quarters of prescriptions for Repatha in the US were being rejected for reimbursement....
...Elliott Management, Paul Singer’s activist hedge fund, has made an offer to acquire Athenahealth, an American electronic medical records company, for about $7bn in one of its largest attempted takeovers...
...But many of those systems are seen as clunky and out-of-date, and vulnerable to disruption from better technologies that use big data to help guide physicians....
...Ignoring instructions that provinces set drug prices, Mr Zhan began direct negotiations with drug companies, while the government insurance fund was ordered to set reimbursement rates by the price of generics...
...These anticompetitive practices are preventing physicians from trying and patients from accessing the biosimilar. J&J did not immediately respond to a request for comments....
...Long before they found fame as everyone’s favourite TV patrician and fictional TV physician, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie performed a sketch show challenging modern social mores....
...This, he says, is “data that was never available to a physician or a care team before”. Having used the system for only about 13 months, definitive data on its impact has yet to be accumulated....
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