Pharmacy
High prescription drug prices have important implications for the American healthcare system, driving up overall costs.
The underlying principles behind the plan, according to HHS, are competition, innovation and transparency.
The president's plan requires all employers with 100-plus employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or get tested weekly.
If passed, the proposal would reduce revenue of the pharmaceutical industry by 40%, according to PhRMA.
Initial data shows that a third dose of its vaccine boosted antibody levels to a higher degree than the previous round.
Dr. Brian Covino, chief medical officer at Cohere Health, talks about reducing payer and provider friction and the CMS' proposed rule on prior authorizations.
For Arizona's HonorHealth, distributing the COVID-19 vaccine was more about using what already existed.
This week's top stories include Dr. David Feinberg leaving Google Health to serve as Cerner's CEO as Google dismantles its health division, and the FDA giving full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The policy is meant to ensure that at-risk patients in smaller settings have the same opportunities as others to receive the vaccination.
Based on results from the clinical trial, the vaccine was 91% effective in preventing COVID-19 disease.