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Half of all Medicare beneficiaries are now enrolled in MA plans

Healthcare Dive

Enrollment in MA plans has steadily increased since 2007, when one in five Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in a private plan.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

Medicaid Spending on Antiretrovirals from 2007-2019. Using Multiple Authorized Generics to Maintain High Prices: The Example of Entacapone. Value Health. 2022 Oct 17:S1098-3015(22)02181-7. Epub ahead of print. Walsh BS, Kesselheim AS, Rome BN. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Oct 21:ciac833. Epub ahead of print.

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Virtual care startup Charlie Health expands to 25 states to tackle escalating youth mental health crisis

Fierce Healthcare

In 2019, 13% of adolescents reported having a major depressive episode, up 60% from 2007, according to federal data. is facing a growing youth mental health crisis.

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Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics

Bill of Health

After all, following 9/11 President Bush (and VP Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld) were extremely concerned about bioterrorism, resulting in Bush’s presidential directive of 2004 (reauthorized in 2007 ) to improve the country’s biodefense plans and weapons.

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FBI, DOJ bust 24 people in $1.2 billion telemedicine fraud scheme

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which maintains 14 strike forces operating in 23 districts, has charged nearly 4,000 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $14 billion.

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Sorry, You Probably Cannot Get MDMA Through Telehealth

Bill of Health

Risk Mitigation: REMS The FDA Amendments Act of 2007 gave the agency new authority to restrict distribution and use of approved drugs through something called Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS). You might think: if ketamine is available, will MDMA also be available via telehealth soon? The short answer is: probably not.

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Roundup: LKCMedicine launching more AI, digital health courses and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Since joining Philips in 2007, he has held leadership roles in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and at the company's global headquarters in the Netherlands. Quinlan most recently led the company's MR, CT and diagnostic X-ray imaging businesses in APAC, Japan, India, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa.

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