Monday, August 29, 2022: Life Sciences

Moderna filed a lawsuit against Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging the vaccine makers “unlawfully copied Moderna’s inventions, and they have continued to use them without permission.” Moderna is seeking compensation from Pfizer for the use of technology that it says it...

Monday, August 29, 2022: Payers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the Biden administration will provide $98.9 million in grant funding to Navigator organizations to help consumers select an Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange plan. The investment is almost $19...

Friday, August 26, 2022: Life Sciences

Pfizer Inc. said its vaccine to protect older adults against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) effectively reduced severe cases of the illness by nearly 86 percent. The drugmaker, which views the RSVpreF vaccine as a critical offering in its lineup of experimental...

Friday, August 26, 2022: Life Sciences

The White House released a policy guidance requiring academic journals to provide access to papers that are publicly funded. The policy would end an optional 12-month publication embargo allowing journals to put work behind a yearlong paywall. The Office of Science...

Friday, August 26, 2022: Payers

The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released three briefs examining various aspects of Medicare Advantage (MA). The first brief analyzes the latest data on MA enrollment, revealing that nearly half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries – 28.4 million out of 58.6 million...