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Cancer patients endure an overlooked financial burden: hospital parking fees

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For many patients, one of the most antagonizing parts of a hospital visit is paying for parking. The charges are actually eating into their financial well-being, particularly for people who have cancer and have to make frequent visits to the hospital for treatments like radiation and chemotherapy. Read the rest…

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STAT+: Key Senate panel considers Medicare bonuses for hospitals that prevent drug shortages

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WASHINGTON — A key Senate committee is proposing that Medicare pay bonuses to hospitals that take measures to prevent drug shortages. After a startling number of drugs, including chemotherapies, were in shortage last year, Washington stepped up its efforts to find policy solutions for the problems.

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STAT+: More hospital pharmacists are rationing drugs due to increasing shortages

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Nearly every hospital pharmacy across the U.S. And the problem has become so bad – especially for chemotherapies — that one-third of hospital pharmacists reported their institutions are rationing, delaying, or canceling treatments or procedures, according to a new survey.

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STAT+: Lawsuit raises antitrust and kickback allegations around cancer patient referrals

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A large independent group of oncologists in Philadelphia is suing the area’s dominant hospital system, Jefferson Health, alleging the system is violating federal antitrust and kickback laws by creating a “concerted campaign to eliminate” the group’s “presence in the oncology marketplace.”

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STAT+: Civica Rx considers moving into chemo drugs as shortages worsen

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WASHINGTON — A nonprofit formed by hospitals to deal with drug shortages is considering a move into chemotherapies. Frustrated by drug shortages and the price spikes that typically ensue, executives from large hospital systems launched the nonprofit Civica Rx to deal with the problem in September 2018.

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STAT+: FTC to probe the role of middlemen in worsening drug shortage crisis

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The Federal Trade Commission is launching a probe into the extent to which group purchasing organizations and wholesalers may contribute to ongoing shortages of key medicines at hospitals and other facilities across the country. Three group purchasing organizations, or GPOs, buy drugs on behalf of most hospitals in the U.S.,

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STAT+: Pharmacists can make shortage drugs, but at what cost?

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Pharmacists increasingly are being asked to make drugs in bulk for hospitals that are in short supply, and they’re even beginning to make chemotherapies. Hospitals’ reliance on pharmacist-made drugs, a practice called compounding, has risen in step with worsening drug shortages.