by Jordana Choucair | Sep 23, 2021 | D.C. News
Vice President Harris called for a new global health security fund at the World Bank to focus on pandemic preparedness. Harris said that the Biden administration is planning to contribute $250 million in seed funding and will request an addition $850 million from...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 22, 2021 | Latest News, Mental Health & Addiction, Newsroom
In observation of National Recovery Month, Third Horizon Strategies convened a virtual Capitol Hill briefing on September 21, 2021 to discuss President Biden’s FY2022 request for a 10-percent Recovery Support Service Set-Aside in the Federal Substance Abuse Prevention...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 22, 2021 | Payers
A report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General found that health insurers received $9.2 billion from Medicare in one year through controversial billing methods that may have allowed the companies to “inappropriately” inflate their payments. The...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 22, 2021 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
The AMA released a new report calling on lawmakers to “act now” on climbing rates of fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses. More than 93,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2020, representing a record high and an almost 30 percent increase in overall fatal overdoses from...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 22, 2021 | M&A
Walgreens announced that it paid $970 million to increase its investment in Shields Health Solutions (Shields) — a company that helps hospitals run their own specialty pharmacies. The deal will increase Walgreens’ total ownership in Shields from 23 percent to 71...
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