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3 Lessons Health Care Leaders Can Learn from the EpiPen Story

3 Lessons Health Care Leaders Can Learn from the EpiPen Story

Mylan Pharmaceuticals' 461 percent price hike for its EpiPens is the latest controversy facing drug manufacturers.It's the latest high-profile story about escalating drug costs and is perhaps the most instructive for leaders across the entire healthcare spectrum.Price hikes by drug companies are not news; what's getting attention are companies whose pricing strategies appear exploitive.


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Here's Why Abortion Advocates Won't Vote for Universal Health Care in Colorado

Here's Why Abortion Advocates Won't Vote for Universal Health Care in Colorado

Sen. Irene Aguilar helps deliver more than 156,000 signatures to put ColoradoCare on the 2016 ballot, outside the offices of the Colorado Secretary of State in Denver on October 23, 2015.This fall, Colorado voters are considering a measure that puts two progressive causes at odds.Amendment 69, an ambitious undertaking by Sen. Irene Aguilar six years in the making that would create a single-payer universal health care system for the state, is finally on the ballot.


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Health Care Providers Scramble to Meet New Disaster Readiness Rule

Health Care Providers Scramble to Meet New Disaster Readiness Rule

An estimated 72,315 American health care providers and suppliers — from hospitals and nursing homes to dialysis facilities and care homes for those with intellectual disabilities — will have a little over a year to meet federal disaster preparedness requirements completed this week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.The new rule is aimed at preventing the severe breakdown in patient care that followed disasters including Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, while also strengthening the ability to provide services during other types of emergencies, such as pandemics and terrorist attacks.The rule is unusual in that it has provisions for 17 different provider types, among them those that patients rely on to live at home, like outpatient surgery sites, physical therapy offices and home health agencies.