Who paid for the AstraZeneca vaccine to be developed? The AstraZeneca vaccine was an international collaboration between researchers at Oxford University and officials with the pharmaceutical giant. AstraZeneca has handled synthesis and rollout from several locations, with many of the UK’s jabs coming from local centres. But the company did not provide the bulk of… Read More »
Dive Brief: Medicare Advantage health plans billed the federal government $ 2.6 billion in 2016 for more than 617,000 patients whose risk-adjusted medical conditions were diagnosed without their physician present, a new report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General concludes. Further, the OIG report showed that 80% of those health risk assessments were… Read More »
The Trump administration has sent hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic-related bailouts to health care providers with checkered histories, including a Florida-based cancer center that agreed to pay a $ 100 million criminal penalty as part of a federal antitrust investigation. At least half of the top 10 recipients, part of a group that… Read More »