Health Care Rounds

#80: Our Take, November 4, 2019

Episode Summary

In this week’s Our Take read-in, we’re covering the latest changes happening at Walgreens, including reducing their footprint and reimagining how they engage with consumers.

Episode Notes

Other briefs include:

• Insurers will receive $1.59 billion in unpaid subsidies if the federal government follows through on a judge’s order.
• California’s attorney general put the kibosh on the Adventist-St. Joseph merger.
• UPMC has begun building a network of hospitals in China.
• Fifteen drug companies settled an Illinois Medicaid fraud suit for $242 million.
• An Oregon insurer has filed an antitrust lawsuit against three health systems.
• Thomas Zenty, the CEO of Cleveland-based University Hospitals for almost 18 years, will retire in January 2021.

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