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Top Policy Expert’s Ties To Giant Drugmaker Often Go Unstated

(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News) When Dr. Mark McClellan sat for an in-depth 30-minute question-and-answer session at an April

(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS is increasing Medicaid audits and oversight of the program, according to a

Medicare is extending its offer of relief from penalties for certain Medicare beneficiaries who enrolled in Medicare Part A and

(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) Federal officials charged 601 defendants in alleged schemes involving about $2 billion in

(By Carey Goldberg for NPR) Carol Martin is 67 and has advanced, inoperable pancreatic cancer. “I have a particularly virulent

(By Meghana Keshavan for STAT) Humans are living longer than ever before. But does our species have a fixed shelf

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Amazon entered into a definitive merger agreement June 28 to acquire online pharmacy PillPack for

(By Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones from NPR and ProPublica) The past two years have been a time of

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) In a move to improve cancer care for older adults, the American Society

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) In the fourth quarter of 2017, CVS Health’s pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Caremark,