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Newswise As shortages of lifesaving medicines, including antibiotics, chemotherapy, and cardiovascular drugs continue to plague the United States, a group of health care organizations released a report exploring measures that should be considered to address this ongoing issue. The report summarizes manufacturing, regulatory, and economic issues related to drug shortages, as well as potential solutions that were considered at a 2014 Summit attended by 22 stakeholder groups, including health care professionals and other non-profit organizations, industry, public interest, and government agencies.
The 2014 Drug Shortages Summit was organized by the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), and The Pew Charitable Trusts. Previous summits were held in 2010 and 2013.
Presentations during the Summit validated a number of existing efforts to address drug shortages, including a provision in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Safety and Innovation Act that requires manufacturers to report supply disruptions for certain medications to the agency. Although new drug shortages are on the decline, existing shortages have persisted in significant numbers. According to the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. experienced more than 450 shortages in 2012 alone.
The Summit report explores the potential manufacturing, economic, and regulatory causes of drug shortages, and considers several possible solutions that merit further exploration, including:
- Improve quality systems to better prevent production problems that can lead to shortages by encouraging companies to foster a corporate quality culture, and use of an FDA-developed set of quality metrics to support early collaboration between manufacturers and the agency on quality issues.
- Identify regulatory efficiencies, such as synchronizing regulatory reviews by different global agencies to shorten the overall time for full approvals for facility upgrades.
- Allow for commercialization of trial batches of drugs that meet quality specifications to help mitigate losses during plant or line upgrade approvals.
- Incentivize manufacturer investments in capacity and reliability by increasing contractual penalties for failing to supply a product, and also allowing price increases.
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Published: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 12:07 a.m.
LAKELAND | Florida has 1,339,791 residents newly enrolled or re-enrolled in health insurance through the Affordable Care Act since Nov.15, part of about 10 million nationwide.
About 38,000 of Florida's total came in the past two weeks.
Most of the newly enrolled nationwide, about 7.5 million, are people using federally facilitated exchanges, as Florida's is. At least 2.4 million more signed up on state-run exchanges, according to figures released Wednesday.
Interest continues as the Feb. 15 open enrollment deadline approaches.
At Winter Haven Hospital, a health-care navigator helping people sign up has at least three or four appointments, scheduled at two-hour intervals, set up daily.
Her clients are mostly women and white or answering "unknown" for their race, said Lisa Patterson, spokeswoman for BayCare Health System, which includes WHH.
Area residents also continue seeking help with enrollment at Central Florida Health Care clinics and other hospitals.
Through Jan. 15, 57 percent of Florida's total were re-enrollees and 43 percent were getting plans for the first time, said Benjamin Wakana, who is with the Department of Health and Human Services.
Ninety-three percent of Florida residents enrolling through the federal website are getting financial assistance through the Affordable Care Act, said Nick Duran, Florida state director for Enroll America.
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FILE - This Aug. 9, 2011 file photo shows a Wall Street street sign near the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. Health care stocks were leading early gains in U.S. trading Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, while the energy sector also rose as the price of oil recovered from a stumble. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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NEW YORK The stock market is notching its third big gain this week as the price of oil recovers and investors applaud a big acquisition in the pharmaceutical industry.
Energy stocks rose Thursday as crude oil gained 4 percent.
Hospira soared 35 percent after the drugmaker agreed to be acquired by Pfizer for $16 billion.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 211 points, or 1.2 percent, to 17,884.
The Standard & Poors 500 rose 21 points, or 1 percent, to 2,062. The Nasdaq composite rose 48 points, or 1 percent, to 4,765.
The gains put the Dow and the S&P 500 back in the black for 2015.
Crude oil rose 4 percent to close at $50.48 a barrel.
Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.81 percent.
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Health care stocks were strongly higher, with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index posting a 1.1% jump and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 rising 1.2% as a group.
In company news, Prestige Brands Holdings ( PBH ) climbed to a record high Thursday after the consumer health care and household cleaning products wholesaler beat analyst projections with its fiscal Q3 financial results and raised its FY15 guidance.
Net income during the three months ended Dec. 31 totaled $21.3 million, or $0.40 per share, improving on a $3.1 million profit during the same quarter last year. Excluding non-recurring items, the company earned $0.48 per share, up from $0.30 last year and exceeding the Capital IQ consensus by $0.08 per share.
Adjustments during the quarter included items related to PBH's recent acquisitions of Insight and Hydralyte.
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President Obama met Tuesday with supporters who have benefited from the health care law, and mocked congressional Republicans for again trying to repeal it.
"My understanding is the House of Representatives has scheduled yet another vote today to take health care away from the folks sitting around this table," Obama said. "I don't know if it's the 55th or the 60th time that they are taking this vote, but I've asked this question before: Why is it this would be at the top of their agenda?"
Republicans who made health care a major issue in last year's congressional elections say the new law has led to higher insurance premiums and canceled policies. Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va., said her sister and brother-in-law work in a medical practice that is being hurt by new health care regulations.
"Doctors who are in a teaching hospital where she is are talking about no longer being able to teach or practice because of the burdens we're placing on them," she said.
The president's White House event featured 10 people who had written Obama letters about their positive experiences with the health care law. Some writers talked about being able to buy affordable insurance; others cited preventive exams that led to early detection of breast cancer and a brain tumor.
Health are "is not some political, ideological battle, it's about people," Obama said, noting that repeal would take insurance away from some of the people at the meeting.
"The notion that we would play politics with the lives of folks who are out there working hard every single day -- trying to make ends meet, trying to look after their families -- makes absolutely no sense," Obama said.
Obama has vowed to veto the House bill, though previous efforts to repeal the health care law have stalled in the Senate.
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Nasdaq-listed Cognizant's December 2014 quarter (fourth quarter for the company) not only beat Street expectations, but also surpassed the firm's forecast. The chief executive, Francisco D'Souza, tells Shivani Shinde Nadhe health care and digital practices will drive growth. Excerpts:
The fourth-quarter numbers have come as a big surprise. Was there a one-off impact?
The numbers were ahead of what we had expected. We have been saying for some time our clients are going through the most profound technology changes we have seen in our lifetime. At the same time, the economies of the world remain volatile. Clients have to deal with this, but they want to invest in new technologies. Over four-five years, Cognizant has been investing in capabilities that address this dual band. We see strong demand for such services. I think Cognizant is well positioned on both sides of the band.
You have given an ambitious growth forecast of 19 per cent for 2015. What are the key drivers?
Digital is an important part of that growth. The second is traditional services that continue to grow and we see clients pushing hard on traditional services as these help drive efficiency and also allow them to invest in new technology. The third is the TriZetto acquisition and the opportunities it is creating.
With TriZetto, you are betting big on health care. Given the regulatory changes, do you think this could be a risk?
Health care is a big market opportunity. It accounts for 19 per cent of the GDP spends in the US. Depending on the other parts of the world, the figures look the same. Hence, health care is an important part of the global economy. Significant disruption is occurring in this sector and there is a demand for end-to-end solutions to help drive client efficiency and the ability to grow.
TriZetto (a healthcare IT solutions company) has 250,000 care providers. They give us a strong platform. The TriZetto acquisition gives us an opportunity to change the dynamics of the healthcare sector and contribute to improve the life of millions of people. But then, we have had good organic growth across portfolios.
Your peers have been investing in start-ups to gain foothold in new technologies. What has been Cognizant's strategy?
We have dedicated presence in Silicon valley and other such start-up hotbeds. We constantly talk to start-ups, engage with them, and bring them to clients. Our approach has thus far been not to make financial investment in start-ups. I don't rule it out completely. My goal is not to be a passive financial investor in the start-up eco-system, but to have an operational relationship with the most promising start-ups that are relevant to our clients. Instead of making financial investment, I would bring to them capabilities, skill and networking that Cognizant has.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly five years after President Barack Obama signed his health care overhaul into law, its fate is yet again in the hands of the Supreme Court.
This time it's not just the White House and Democrats who have reason to be anxious. Republican lawmakers and governors won't escape the political fallout if the court invalidates insurance subsidies worth billions of dollars to people in more than 30 states.
Obama's law offers subsidized private insurance to people who don't have access to it on the job. Without financial assistance with their premiums, millions of those consumers would drop coverage.
And disruptions in the affected states don't end there. If droves of healthy people bail out of HealthCare.gov, residents buying individual policies outside the government market would face a jump in premiums. That's because self-pay customers are in the same insurance pool as the subsidized ones.
Health insurers spent millions to defeat the law as it was being debated. But the industry told the court last month that the subsidies are a key to making the insurance overhaul work. Withdrawing them would "make the situation worse than it was before" Congress passed the Affordable Care Act.
The debate over "Obamacare" was messy enough when just politics and ideology were involved. It gets really dicey with the well-being of millions of people in the balance. "It is not simply a function of law or ideology; there are practical impacts on high numbers of people," said Republican Mike Leavitt, a former federal health secretary.
The legal issues involve the leeway accorded to federal agencies in applying complex legislation. Opponents argue that the precise wording of the law only allows subsidies in states that have set up their own insurance markets, or exchanges. That would leave out most beneficiaries, who live in states where the federal government runs the exchanges. The administration and Democratic lawmakers who wrote the law say Congress' clear intent was to provide subsidies to people in every state.
While predicting a victory, the White House has not prepared consumers for the consequences of a reversal. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell repeatedly said that "nothing has changed," even as other supporters of the law grew alarmed when the Supreme Court unexpectedly took the case. Burwell has dodged questions about contingency planning.
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