Category: Press Release

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As drug pricing pressure intensifies and benefit structures shift, some health systems are still treating biosimilars as a selective cost lever — deploying them in certain payer segments while preserving legacy models elsewhere. Geisinger made a different call. Rather than adopting biosimilars incrementally, the Danville, Pa.-based health system moved to a biosimilar-first strategy across all […]

Robert Cavagnol, MD, was appointed president for Carle Health’s Bloomington-Normal Service Area. Dr. Cavagnol will step into the role Feb. 2, succeeding Colleen Kannaday, who is retiring after 15 years leading Carle BroMenn Medical Center in Normal, Ill., and Carle Eureka (Ill.) Hospital, according to a Jan. 7 news release from the health system. As […]

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is migrating its entire technology infrastructure to the cloud through a partnership with Amazon Web Services. The health system will transition its applications, data and IT environments from traditional data centers to AWS, with the migration expected to be completed by April 2026, according to a Jan. 8 news release. The […]

Former Jefferson Health CEO Stephen Klasko, MD, and Providence CEO emeritus Rod Hochman, MD, have joined the governance and advisory ranks of AmplifyMD. Dr. Klasko has been appointed to the board of directors, and Dr. Hochman has joined as a strategic advisor, according to a Jan. 8 news release from AmplifyMD. The company is a […]

Primary care providers at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus have joined the Mercy Health Select Accountable Care Organization. The partnership took effect Jan. 1 is expected to improve care coordination and outcomes for Medicare patients, health system officials said in a Jan. 8 news release. Mercy Health Select participates in the […]

GoodRx has named 20 medications and vaccines as the most influential FDA approvals of 2025, spotlighting first-in-class drugs, new indications, and therapies with the potential to significantly affect public health. 1. Nereus (tradipitant) for motion sickness: Approved Dec. 30, Nereus is the first new prescription drug in decades for motion sickness. The oral capsule works […]

As the U.S. confronts one of its most severe flu seasons, Tamiflu, a common antiviral medication to treat influenza, is in shortage in pockets across the country, Bloomberg reported Jan. 7.  In Utah, where flu activity is high, pharmacists are not yet reporting supply issues. But in Georgia, where flu activity is very high, drugstores […]

Medicare enacted 10 negotiated drug prices for some of the nation’s costliest prescription medications Jan. 1. However, years before the new prices launched, pharmaceutical companies widely altered their pricing strategies, according to a Dec. 18 Vizient report.  The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in August 2022, heralded significant changes to […]

Allison Schuler, MSN, has been appointed CEO and chief nursing officer of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Attala in Kosciusko, Miss. She brings more than 25 years of healthcare experience to the role, according to a Jan. 7 LinkedIn post from Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care. Ms. Shuler joined the hospital — then known as Montfort Jones […]