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A Pfizer manufacturing facility in North Carolina, responsible for making 25% of the company's sterile injectable medicines for hospitals, sustained heavy tornado damage, potentially worsening an already deep drug shortage.

"The Hospitals... assert they are exempt from the requirements... due to the state action doctrine, which, while a judicially created affirmative defense to antitrust liability, is not one of the enumerated exemptions to the HSR Act," argued government attorneys.

The bill would require pharmacy benefit managers to submit detailed information to CMS each year that includes their interactions with the recommendation committees that decide on the drugs to be included in the formulary.

The share of mixed jobs with a standard, predictable schedule increased from 81% in 2019 to 84% in 2021.

Employers can be catalysts in driving the change toward living healthier years and spending less.

New research suggests diversity objectives have not led to meaningful change at public firms.

The software provider was accused of mismanaging its profit-sharing 401(k) plan and failing to fulfill its fiduciary duties by diversifying the plan's assets, which resulted in significant losses, according to the Labor Department.

During the Consumer Financial Protection Board hearing, panelists identified deferred interest credit cards as a prime culprit saddling patients, who tap financing for "gaps" in health care coverage, with medical debt.