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Lean Principles for Specialty Pharmacy and Long-Term Care

We mentioned in our previous post, Medicare’s national pricing has providers tightening their belts (Should you be getting lean?), the […]

Further reimbursement cuts are expected when Medicare implements its national competitive bidding pricing on January 1st of next year. Liz

Anthem plans to acquire Cigna for $48.3 billion; Aetna announces plans to purchase Humana for $37 billion. Is this good

Most alternate site providers and specialty pharmacies associate the ACA with higher costs, but not Paul Mastrapa, CEO of Option

The summer sun is shining – which means many of your patients are somewhere else. Re-admission slowdowns and low patient

“Switching Costs” are well known in enterprise software. In fact they are often deliberately designed. Companies know that the harder

Given equivalent ingredients and preparation, a well-presented dish will always beat a poorly presented one on “taste” in the minds

Over the past two weeks many of the nation’s leading home infusion, institutional, and long term care pharmacies converged on

What do smart watches, pedometers, heart-rate monitors, and other high-tech connected consumer wearables have to do with the future of

In a recent article, Innovation at the hospital: Time for health care to catch up to other industries, by Dick Escue,

Earlier this month it was announced that Pfizer Inc. purchased Hospira Inc. for a reported 15 billion with the goal

This bill was sponsored by Elion Engel (D-NY) and Pat Tiberi (R-OH) to address the coverage gap for Medicare patients