Cost-Containment

A new survey finds that very few U.S. companies and their HR departments are prepared for how work automation will change their businesses.

The pharma industrys biggest trade group boosted revenue by nearly a fourth last year and spread the millions collected among hundreds of lobbyists, politicians and patient groups.

As hospital companies struggle to make money providing medical care, they are turning to the profitable and growing business of collecting debt.

For months now, pharmacy and health benefits companies have fretted that theyre the next targets of Jeff Bezoss disruption steamroller, but Amazon hasnt yet figured out how to shake up a notoriously complex business.

Doctors blame holdups in getting the treatment paid for by Medicare and Medicaid, the two giant U.S. government health programs, as well as some of the U.S.s largest insurers.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.s new CEO announced plans to slash 25 percent of the Israeli companys 56,000-strong workforce, suspend dividends and forgo employee bonuses