Supply Chain
Nearly three in four Americans say the costs of prescription drugs are "unreasonable," with most putting the blame on drugmakers, a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found.
The privately held company is in the $9 billion global market for products designed for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures, degenerative disc disease.
Hospital chief financial officers have indispensable business intelligence towards managing costs surrounding supply chain purchases.
Actavis said the newly combined company, which will take on the Allergan name, is expected to net $23 billion in sales in 2015.
Henry Schein, one of the largest distributors of medical, dental and veterinary supplies, had more than $10.3 billion in revenue in 2014 and $466 million in profit.
Shares of Farmingdale, New York-based Enzo Biochem fell as low as 17 percent on Tuesday after a federal appeals court threw out a patent infringement ruling it won against Applera.
In total, 37 people have pleaded guilty to scheme in which bribes were paid to doctors in return for referring patient blood specimens to Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services in New Jersey.
Merck & Co. received $1.4 billion from HHS in 2014, while Pfizer scored $856 million, according to report by analytics firm Govini.
Theranos technology can take a drop of blood from the finger and screen for a spectrum of conditions and diseases at half the price of Medicare.
The FDA said the Olympus TJF-Q180V duodenoscope, one of the scopes tied to the CRE cases, is still pending clearance while being marketed to hospitals.