Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs, Humana Exploring Partnership To Tackle Employer Drug Costs

Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs and Humana are exploring a potential partnership to help lower the cost of prescription drugs for employers. Cuban, an entrepreneur, businessman and TV personality who co-founded Cost Plus Drugs, said the company is in discussions with Humana to work with its CenterWell healthcare services business to provide a better pharmacy ...

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The Country’s Largest All-Electric Hospital Is About To Open In Orange County

A new hospital at UC Irvine opens Wednesday and it will be all-electric — only the second such medical center, and the largest, in the country so far. People live through some of the toughest moments of their lives in hospitals, so they need to be as comfortable as possible. Hospitals traditionally connect with natural ...

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Insurance Coverage Of Hepatitis B Vaccine Won’t Change, Industry And Officials Say

Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to the immunization practice. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose members were chosen by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ...

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Shingles Vaccine May Slow Progression of Dementia, New Study Suggests

The shingles vaccine not only offers protection against the painful viral infection, a new study suggests that the two-dose shot also may slow the progression of dementia. Shingles, caused by the varicella-zoster virus, presents as a painful rash and it’s estimated that about 1 in every 3 people in the United States will develop the illness in ...

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Nevada Governor Signs Bills Passed During Special Session Into Law

Gov. Joe Lombardo signed 13 bills into law on Monday following last month’s special session of the Nevada Legislature, his office announced this morning. The measures “focused on strengthening public safety, expanding health care access, modernizing cybersecurity, improving school zone safety, supporting vulnerable Nevadans, and ensuring responsible state operations,” his office said in a news ...

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Schumer Announces Health Care Plan

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer officially unveiled Democrats’ plan for a health care vote next week, saying Thursday on the chamber floor his caucus will propose extending soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years. “This is the bill, a clean three-year extension of ACA tax credits, that Democrats will bring to the floor of ...

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