Nearly 80% of Ohio voters rejected the Drug Price Relief Act, which would have capped the amount state agencies pay for prescription drugs at prices paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Nebraska, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
A section of the National Defense Authorization Act currently under consideration by a congressional conference committee would give the Department of Defense the power to approve drugs and medical devices for use among military personnel, even if the products have not yet been approved by FDA.
Preliminary CDC data show the U.S. firearm-related death rate—including homicides, deaths by suicide, unintentional deaths, and law-enforcement-related deaths—increased for the second consecutive year from 11 deaths per 100,000 in 2015 to 12 deaths per 100,000 in 2016.
After a gunman opened fire at a Texas church on Sunday, University Hospital in San Antonio was "as ready [as] you can possibly be" to treat the wounded, ultimately receiving nine victims, according to Brian Eastridge, chief of trauma and emergency surgery, Jacob Beltran writes for the San Antonio Express-News.
Nearly 1,600 hospitals will receive bonus payments and 1,211 hospitals will face penalties under the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program in fiscal year 2018, CMS announced Friday.
More than 40% of health care professionals experiencing flu-like symptoms go to work, despite CDC recommendations not to, according to a new study in the American Journal of Infection Control.
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