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STAT+: Health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year as inflation pinched workers, analysis shows

STAT

Bancel is in the process of donating a vast majority of his income to charities. That CEO haul was down 11% from the $4.5 billion recorded in 2021. The 10 highest-paid CEOs — a list that also includes the CEOs of Thermo Fisher and McKesson — made a combined $1.4 billion, or about a third of the total studied.

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How Amazon could Disrupt Pharmacy Services

The Digital Apothecary

Pharmacy has drastically changed, and with the patient view of most pharmacists just 'Count-Lick-and Pour' medications for patients it's not hard then to think of how to just automate the process. One issue is that the dispensing process is not a full-proof system at the current time. Which, to be honest, is a thing right now.

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Build back better: US pharma and the future of healthcare

pharmaphorum

Now, as vaccination continues at pace, the sector has pledged to help “build back better”, by lowering barriers between medical innovations and the patients who need them. As this report demonstrates, the biopharmaceutical indusyry is ready and willing to play its part in this process. Read the full report here. About the author.

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2023 Medicare Updates – What You Need to Know

Community Pharmacy

If this applies to you, then you can begin your application process here to get the process started. Medicare Part D has four phases of coverage that users need to be aware of before and during enrollment in the program. In 2022, the initial coverage limit was $4,430. In 2022, the coverage gap limit was $7,050.

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Some action points for the next PM

Express Pharma

Biogenerics comes with higher risks, as the manufacturing process and technologies are more complex. There is also a nod to India’s vaccine dominance which came to prominence during the global COVID pandemic. The DoP report also points out that biogenerics need different approaches to deal with IP challenges.

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Express Scripts on the Road to Damascus?

Ramblings of a pharmacist

Pharmacists prescribe vaccinations. Separately, I don’t believe that 90-day supplies actually drive true adherence or clinical improvement - they just move the process measure of PDC. It’s also an error to believe that health insurers care about their members’ health. The authority to prescribe (i.e.

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NHC Comments on Help Committee Pandemic Preparedness RFI

Putting Patients First Blog

They primarily focus on improving the public health infrastructure, improving the development of treatment and vaccines, and coordinating federal response. These flexibilities and partnerships greatly increased the speed of research and development for COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccines.