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Hospital Billing Is Getting More Aggressive, Raising Costs. Insurers Are Blaming AI

Plus more data on the link -- or lack thereof -- between 340B revenue and charity care

Brian Reid

Does a New Analysis Comparing TrumpRx Prices to International Cash Prices Clarify Anything?

And a deep dive on 340B hospital financial assistance policies

Brian Reid

Keytruda, Opdivo Top a New Forecast of the 20 Drugs Due for Medicare ‘Negotiations’ Next Year

And Chris Klomp’s ducked MFN and TrumpRx questions from Senators; his nomination advances anyway

Brian Reid

Pfizer’s Bourla: CEOs Might Want to ‘Send Me Thank-You Notes’ for MFN Work

Brian Reid

One Big Beautiful Bridge: 700K Medicare Beneficiaries Have Opted Into CMS’ Obesity Pilot

And pressure on Europe -- especially Germany -- to raise drug prices intensifies

Brian Reid

Copies of Lilly and Pfizer’s MFN Deals Have Been Released. The Takeaway Is █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █

And South Dakota stopped a bounty program for racoon tails last year. That move saved more money than its new Medicaid MFN deal

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Two Reasons To View Today’s Medicaid Drug-Price News With Skepticism

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MFN Has Been Central to HHS Nominee Klomp’s Current Job at CMS, But Senators Entirely Ignore the Topic

And Census Bureau data shows that nonprofit hospital revenue surged 10% over the past year

Brian Reid

The Ten Questions I Wish Senators Had Asked HHS Deputy Nominee Chris Klomp

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