11.47.00 generic managers hospital systems 60% of the CEOs of America's "Great Health Systems" Have No Educational Background in Health Care We have noted that US health care has been taken over by generic managers . A recent article about the CEOs of purportedly some of America...
07.54.00 CHF clinical trials Entresto evidence-based medicine manipulating clinical research Novartis sacubitril Entresto: Blockbuster, or Just Over Hyped? - Whatever, It Will Cost $4500 a Year The newest drug for congestive heart failure, Entresto, a fixed combination of valsartan and sacubitril, has just hit the market at an eleva...
06.42.00 generic managers ill-informed management NHS UK What They Really Think of Us, UK Version - Health Secretary Derides NHS Doctors for Not Working Enough on Weekends A new story from the UK suggests what top leaders of health care really think about health care professionals. I realize that I risk showin...
12.51.00 AHIP Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS HCA Medicare revolving doors Turn, Turn, Turn - from Columbia/ HCA Executive, to Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to America's Healt Insurance Plans (AHIP) Marilyn Tavenner's career continues to revolve, er, evolve. Columbia/ HCA Marilyn Tavenner worked for Columbia / HCA, now HCA, although ...
18.29.00 boards of directors conflicts of interest executive compensation mission-hostile management Mylan perverse incentives Who Benefits? - Rising Generic Drug Prices and the Case of Mylan's Conflicted Property Purchases Rising Generic Drug Prices Health care costs in the US continue their seemingly inexorable rise. Even the parts of health care that used to...
12.08.00 Clinton Foundation evidence-based medicine Gilead hepatitis C Sovaldi Bill Clinton, Paid to Speak to Biotech Conference, Extolled $1000 Pill to Prevent "Liver Rot," Despite Lack of Evidence that It Does What were they thinking? Former President Clinton Talkes to Pharma and Biotech Executives In mid June, 2015, the Philadelphia Inquirer repor...