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Record-breaking settlement: Here’s why Bon Secours must pay the US government $36.5 ’ ‘We don’t need it all’: R.I.’s s largest hospital system may consolidate real estate portfolio Rhode Island company invests $8.4M Health system settles orthopedic False Claims allegations for $36.5M

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Democrats Didn’t Achieve All Their Goals, but Inflation Reduction Act Makes Historic Medicare Changes

Kaiser Health News

First, it would give the federal government the ability to negotiate prices of some drugs purchased by Medicare beneficiaries, a tool that has long been opposed by the drug industry. Never before have we been able to negotiate prescription drug prices. “It’s historic.