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If most patients are not going to exceed their deductible in a given year, they are now “consumers” and are looking for differentiators that offer fixed fee care.

FDA has issued a drug safety communication on GlaxoSmithKline's anti-seizure drug ezogabine (Potiga). Side effects of the the drug, which may include vision loss due to eye pigment change and skip discoloration, can be "adequately managed" by following the label, reports the FDA.

Here are six steps experts say are necessary for success as an accountable care organization (ACO).

FDA has approved eltrombopag (Promacta, Novartis) for the treatment of children aged 6 years and older with chronic immune thrombocytopenia.

FDA researchers are calling for greater transparency from drug companies when their drug is rejected by the agency, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.

Drug shortages are significant public health threats. They can delay, or even deny, critical care for patients. Here are the four drugs in shortage that are among the most problematic.

The FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to tocilizumab (Actemra, Genentech) for the treatment of systemic sclerosis, a rare and potentially life-threatening disease with no FDA-approved therapy.

This week, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the Emergency Treatment for Opioid Overdose Act into law, allowing first responders to possess, store, and administer naloxone.

Ibrutinib may be a safe and potentially effective treatment for patients with chronic graft-versus-host-disease (cGVHD) who were refractory to steroid treatment or steroid-dependent, suggested interim data presented at the 51st American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Suvorexant (BELSOMRA) was an effective and well-tolerated treatment of insomnia, according to a new study presented at SLEEP 2015 in Seattle, Washington.

Certain Protein-pump inhibitors (PPIs) such as omeprazole (Prilosec) are associated with a short-term risk of heart attacks and other cardiac events, according to a new study.

The FDA's Sentinel Initiative uses big data and broad networks to detect and respond to risks associated with prescription drugs. In the June 4th Health Affairs' Health Policy Brief, the FDA describes how the Sentinel Initiative improves on the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database.

FDA’ s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee recommended this week to approve cholesterol-lowering drug evolocumab (Repatha) from Amgen in a 15-0 vote. It also voted 13-3 in favor of FDA approving Sanofi and Regeneron's Praluent (alirocumab), but most panel members called for a restricted label in high-risk patients with genetic conditions causing elevated cholesterol, rather than wider use in the general elevated cholesterol population.

The Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA) recently sent a letter to FDA urging timely implementation of the remaining provisions of the Generic Drug User Fee Amendment (GDUFA).

Earlier this year, the Obama Administration announced a 5-year plan to combat antibiotic resistance. The Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship was created to meet this "growing public health threat" and to reduce the misuse of antibiotics.

CVS Health is integrating HHS' Healthfinder.gov app into its web space under the name myHealthFinder.

The real value of population health management lies not in the data it generates but in the interventions it drives, according to Jay Rajda, MD., medical director of Aetna's Innovation Lab.

FDA has expanded the indication for topiramate (Qudexy XR, Upsher-Smith Laboratories) extended-release capsules within the pediatric population.

Results of a new study on combination drugs used to treat melanoma were presented at the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago. Researchers showed that a combination of ipilimumab and nivolumab stopped the advancement of melanoma for nearly a year in 58% of cases.

FDA’s approval of the first generic version of Copaxone for treating patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis has industry insiders contemplating the impact on the generics market as well as payer coverage strategies.

Leading cancer drugs reduced the risk of death by half for people with lung cancer and assisted patients with HER2-positive breast cancer live longer without the disease recurring. The findings were just two of the numerous important study results presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago, Ill., this week.

Here are 10 things managed healthcare executives should know about cloud computing and how it could impact their organizations.

Organizations that want to achieve deal success should try to focus on three areas: planning, organizational change, and target management.

Payers and providers must consider the key differences between two consolidation models: "horizontal consolidations" and "vertical consolidations." Here's why.

AHIP presentation: What should payers and providers be doing with all of the data they are collecting?

The FDA has granted Priority Review for ticagrelor (Brilinta, AstraZeneca) for patients with a history of heart attack.

In this blog post, David Calabrese RPh, MHP and Andrea Marks, MS discuss Catamaran's research on opioid abuse. Catamaran is concerned about opioid misuse and is moving forward with plans to combat opioid abuse.

In patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), afatinib significantly improved overall survival (OS) compared to erlotinib, according to data presented at the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago.