Monthly Newsletter – July 2022
Clinical Departments Healthcare Update
COVID 19 – PHARMA – HEALTHCARE FRAUD – TECH – PAYER – MISC
COVID-19 News
US Confirmed Cases …… 87,886,885 (Total US total population 332,43,650)
US deaths ………………….. 1,017,920
On 7/5/2022 there were 67 deaths reported on that day. The record high on Jan 20, 2021 was 4,415 deaths in one day. The first case of COVID-19 in US was reported 894 days ago on 1/21/2020. Yesterday, the country reported 43,028 new confirmed cases.
% of US Population Fully Vaccinated…… 67.36 %
- States ranked by COVID-19 Hospitalization rates Click here
- States ranked by COVID-19 test positivity rates Click here
- States ranked by COVID-19 death rates Click here
- CDC Covid Tracker Click here
- Coronavirus Resource Center Click here
Global Cases ……………. 550,152,216
Global Deaths …………… 6,340,396
Global population ………. 7,906,273,450
Where COVID-19 cases are projected to rise, fall the most by July 4
FDA recommends vaccine makers update Covid-19 shots to target Omicron
NYC to skirt pharmacies, hand out Paxlovid prescriptions at mobile test-to-treat sites
Vaccines still key to slowing COVID-19 pandemic, experts say
PHARMA
- BioMarin’s hemophilia gene therapy Roctavian wins conditional EU backing amid FDA delay. The positive EMA opinion may bode well for Roctavian in the U.S. Read More – Fierce Pharma
- Supreme Court won’t take up lawsuit over PBM liability under ERISA. The court announced Monday it will not take up the class-action lawsuit John Doe vs. Express Scripts Read More – Fierce Healthcare
- 9 big moves pharmacy chains made in 2022- Here are nine of the biggest actions pharmacy chains Walmart, Walgreens and CVS took so far this year Read More – Becker’s Hospital Review
- Ripples from Roe v. Wade decision: 5 updates on access to emergency contraceptives, abortion pills Read More – Becker’s Hospital Review
HEALTHCARE FRAUD
- 2 convicted in $1.4B fraud scheme preying on rural hospitals, addiction patients Read More – Fierce Healthcare
- Gilead nets $33M in settlement over yearslong HIV drug fraud case in Florida Read More – Fierce Pharma
- 15 Texas physicians to pay $2.8M to settle kickback allegations Read More – Becker’s Hospital Review
TECH
- After abortion ruling, biotechs developing contraceptives say their work is more important — and fraught — than ever Read More – STATNews
- eFFECTOR Takes Road Less Traveled to Maximize Cancer Treatment Read more – BioSpace
- “There are billions of dollars being wasted”: What CIOs think of digital health startups Read More
PAYER
- How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public. As of July 1, health insurers and self-insured employers must post on websites just about every price they’ve negotiated with providers for healthcare services, item by item Read More – Fierce Healthcare
- Survey: These are healthcare CFOs’ biggest fears Read More – Fierce Healthcare
- 5 largest health insurance companies by revenue Read More – Becker’s ASC
- Stop-loss COVID-19 claims jumped 354% in 2021, study finds Read More – Becker’s Payer
MISC
- FDA planning to allow clinical trials of pig organ transplants Read More – WSJ
- WHO: Monkeypox outbreak ‘unusual’ and worrying but not yet global emergency Read More
- US to make 296K monkeypox vaccines available: 4 outbreak response updates Read More – Becker’s Healthcare
- Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Their Role in Drug Spending Read More – Commonwealth Fund
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