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Express Scripts Holding Co. gave chairman and CEO George Paz a 50% hike in total compensation for 2012, a year in which the nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager polished off a $29 billion acquisition, patched a key partnership and saw its stock price climb 21%.
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A lot can change in a year. Last March, Walgreen Co. was simply a domestic drugstore chain. Today, the Deerfield, Ill.-based company is part of an international juggernaut through a partnership with Europe's leading pharmacy chain Alliance Boots GmbH and, with a new 10-year deal with drug...
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Put this one in the “nobody's perfect” category.
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In signing a 10-year deal with drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen Corp. and mulling the possibility of taking up to a 23% equity stake in the company, Walgreen Co. is inching closer to becoming a vertically integrated drug dispenser, a spokesman confirmed.
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Drugstore chain Walgreen Co. is buying an ownership stake in another big company, this time in a deal that could increase its clout when negotiating prices with drugmakers.
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Perhaps the greatest challenge before the integrated, multispecialty organizations that make up the American Medical Group Association is that they are now being called upon to live up to their reputations as leaders in providing high-quality healthcare at a lower cost.
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Similar to a situation once described in the old Pogo comic strip, the U.S. healthcare industry looks to be “confronted with insurmountable opportunities” and it is being plunged into an environment where anything can happen and probably will, according to panelists offering their...
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For 10 days in January, Bayhealth Medical Center was near gridlock as patients with winter ailments jammed its emergency department and created bottlenecks that reverberated throughout the facility.
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Ongoing shortages of sterile injectable drugs have triggered a wave of investment in new and existing compounding pharmacies, which so far, at least, hasn't alleviated the shortages.
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Medicare entered year two of its accountable care experiment with a significant expansion, even as a top official said it was too soon to release early results.
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