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… 2014 benefit year, over $7.9 billion in reinsurance payments will be made to 437 issuers nationwide….Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is spending close to $8 billion in payments to issuers with exceptionally high costs,…analysis shows the reinsurance program is working as intended by compensating issuers that enroll higher risk individuals…

…first measles death in 12 years, according to Washington state health officials....…measles was undetected and confirmed only through an autopsy,….

Calls for removing the Congressional prohibition on the use of federal funds for development of unique ID…correct patient identification as a critical need for ensuring patient safety…"The accurate and efficient matching of patients with their healthcare data is a signification threat to patient safety,"

An emerging trend in health care is that some patient-centered medical homes are including pharmacists. At Tripler Army Medical Center…a 1-year pilot showed that the value of …clinical pharmacists can be quantified in both cost and quality terms.

"Companies have made a commitment to make the same adequate supplies of medicines," …. Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE) would like to see the introduction of export bans, so medicines cannot be traded out of the country…

…regulatory quagmire for more of the bizarre tales from the FDA and the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute… more than $15.3 million to fund clinical research for sickle cell disease therapies, including a total of $1.2 million to support three clinical studies…does not meet the strict definition to qualify for additional incentives…

Health IT support in care coordination inconsistent….leaves much to be desired, according to a new survey of clinicians….survey showed that although 78 percent of the 350 respondents viewed timely notification of hospital discharges as very important, only about 49 percent used health IT systems to accomplish this task.

Greek and multinational (pharmaceutical companies), is (are) in constant and close cooperation with the Ministry of Health, doing everything possible to ensure the smooth and uninterrupted supply of the medicine’s distribution chain.

…the number of pharmacy armed robberies across the country increased during the first five months of 2015,…382 pharmacy armed robberies (76.4 per month) reported between January 2015 and June 2015 is ahead of 2014’s pace of 69.16 robberies per month.

In a win for pharmacists and their patients, CMS has allowed Medicare Part D plans to continue to be able to cover pharmacy claims at the point of sale for prescriptions written by "other authorized prescribers," such as pharmacists, in an interim final rule...