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UnitedHealth: New doctor payment plan cut cancer care costs

May 14, 2019 at 6:14 a.m.

(Reuters) - An experiment changing how U.S. cancer doctors are compensated cut healthcare costs by a third, with no discernible decline in patient health, according to a three-year study by...

Allergan rejects Valeant and Ackman’s raised takeover offer

August 25, 2021 at 5:37 a.m.

By Caroline Humer and Ransdell Pierson (Reuters) - The battle for botox maker Allergan Inc heated up on Tuesday as the company officially rejected a sweetened $53 billion takeover offer...

Abbott to buy Latin American drugmaker CFR in $2.9 billion deal

August 25, 2021 at 5:01 a.m.

(Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories said on Friday it would acquire Chile's CFR Pharmaceuticals SA in a $2.9 billion deal that will more than double its branded generic drugs business in...

Humana sees 2014 membership growth as Obamacare sales surge

May 14, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

By Caroline Humer (Reuters) - Managed care company Humana Inc said on Wednesday it expects revenue to grow this year as it adds hundreds of thousands of new customers to...

UnitedHealth: New hepatitis C drug costs far more than forecast

August 25, 2021 at 4:06 a.m.

(Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group Inc, the largest U.S. health insurer, said it spent more than $100 million to cover a pricey new hepatitis C drug from Gilead Sciences Inc in...

Texas Medicaid holds off on proposed limits for Gilead hepatitis drug

August 25, 2021 at 3:55 a.m.

(Reuters) - Texas is reconsidering whether to impose strict limits on Gilead Sciences' $84,000 hepatitis C treatment for patients on the state's Medicaid health plan for the poor, at the...

Texas Medicaid holds off on proposed limits for Gilead hepatitis drug

May 14, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

(Reuters) - Texas is reconsidering whether to impose strict limits on Gilead Sciences' $84,000 hepatitis C treatment for patients on the state's Medicaid health plan for the poor, at the...

U.S. insurers still expect cuts in 2015 Medicare payments

May 23, 2019 at 9:33 p.m.

(Reuters) - U.S. health insurers said on Tuesday they still expected cuts in government reimbursements for privately managed Medicare health plans for the elderly next year even after the Obama...

U.S. insurers still expect cuts in 2015 Medicare payments

August 25, 2021 at 3:39 a.m.

(Reuters) - U.S. health insurers said on Tuesday they still expected cuts in government reimbursements for privately managed Medicare health plans for the elderly next year even after the Obama...

Healthcare players see more changes coming to Obamacare

May 14, 2019 at 5:50 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the key players rolling out Obamacare to the American public say their work on the program is just beginning, as the real-world effect of the...

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