Practice Management News

In his new role as Cleveland Clinic’s chairman of gastroenterology and hepatology, Miguel Regueiro, MD, plans to expand on the inflammatory bowel disease specialty medical home concept that he and colleagues successfully piloted at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

A lawsuit against certain opioid manufacturers and drug distributors could dramatically shake up the health care, pharmaceutical and legal systems, experts told Healio Family Medicine.

Hospitals that participate in the 340B program offer more low-profit service lines than nonparticipants, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Patients exhibiting behaviors of opioid misuse, such as use of multiple prescribers and overlapping prescriptions, had a greater risk for subsequent overdose and death, according to results published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The American College of Physicians recently sent a letter to Congress indicating that slashing expenditures would impair access to health coverage, medical innovation and public health, according to a press release.

Experts told Healio Family Medicine that the drug pricing plan presented by President Donald J. Trump to lower drug costs suggests he fails to recognize what is causing high drug prices and consequently, faces an uphill climb in becoming a reality.

Pharmaceutical industry marketing of opioids and related payments to physicians are associated with increased subsequent opioid prescribing, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

An intervention that incorporates a standard for opioid prescribing significantly decreases IV opioid exposure in hospitalized patients while improving pain control, according to JAMA Internal Medicine.

President Donald J. Trump said the days of pharmaceutical companies, special interest groups and foreign governments controlling drug pricing are over, as he unveiled his set of proposals for lowering drug prices earlier today — his first public remarks devoted to the issue after often calling it a priority during the first 16 months of his administration.

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