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Imagine opening up your hospital bill and being shocked…Some markup on costs is probably expected…average hospital charges about 3.4 times the cost of a procedure…researchers… found that the 50 hospitals charging the most for their services are marking up prices 1,000 percent over Medicare-allowable costs.

….pharmacy technicians make anywhere from $26,000 to $39,000 a year, though most make around $32,000 annually...depends on a number of factors, however, including experience, place of employment (company or geographic location), specific job duties, health care setting, and educational background...

Drug Enforcement Administration is using billboards to post the faces of people suspected of looting dozens of pharmacies during Baltimore’s Freddie Gray riots in April…27 pharmacies and two methadone clinics were looted and an estimated 300,000 doses of drugs were stolen,…

India's smaller generic drugmakers, struggling to cope with…tougher regulation in the United States, are under pressure to consider branching out to new, less-profitable markets or sell out to larger rivals…Ranbaxy's $500 million U.S. fine for drug safety violations…

Facebook messages or e-mails would be convenient ways for…patients to communicate with their health care providers...a recent online survey, 37% retail pharmacy customers…that they had contacted a physician via e-mail…18% had attempted the same via Facebook.

Seres Therapeutics,...trying to create new medicines from the bacteria in the human gut,...most promising candidate is a pill…to treat Clostridium difficile,..via fecal transplants…re-colonize patients with beneficial gut flora.

John Moorman, PharmD, BCPS, Pharmacist at Akron General Medical Center in Ohio talks about the outcome metrics of care transitions that pharmacists should pay attention to.

John Moorman, PharmD, BCPS, Pharmacist at Akron General Medical Center in Ohio discusses the Provider Status Movement in Ohio.

Rite Aid will be teaming with The Skin Cancer Foundation….providing…customers free private screenings with a local dermatologist volunteer,…flagship early detection program, …raise skin cancer awareness and educate the public about the importance of prevention…

These are some of the conditions in which biopharma can make a substantial impact on outcomes and costs…here are 5 drug categories that may command the most impact on pharma spending in the near future…Hepatitis C, Oncology, PCSK9 inhibitors, Cystic Fibrosis, and Heart failure..