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Private equity's role in health care provider markets is an ongoing and evolving challenge, and there are no signs that PE's interest in health care markets is waning, the study found.

"Amazon is asking patients to turn over a ton of personal data to use their services," Sen. Peter Welch told POLITICO in an email.

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.