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Why The Shooting Of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Was Met With Countless Memes

“I think political and industry leaders might want to read the comments and think hard about them.”

Pedestrian.tv

United Healthcare CEO kept a low public profile. Then he was shot to death in New York

Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the US but he was largely unknown to the millions his decisions affected

The Independent UK

Medicare agents might not recommend the best plans this year as profits take priority

Curbing agents’ commissions may hurt beneficiaries.

Fortune

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Palo Alto Earnings Due. Will Cybersecurity Firm Win Back Wall Street's Confidence?

Fiscal Q3 earnings for Palo Alto stock are due May 20 with expectations low. Some analysts expect long-range upside from cloud strategy, the DoD's Thunderdome project and United Healthcare data breach.

Investors Business Daily

‘Make money by denying care’: new US rules aim to curb use of approval by private health insurances

Patients, advocates and researchers welcome regulations but argue rules don’t go nearly far enough to tackle scale of problem

The Guardian - US

Prior authorization rules are stressful for Medicare Advantage customers

Millions of prior authorization requests are denied every year, leaving some Medicare Advantage customers without adequate care. But changes are coming to fix this.

Fortune

UnitedHealth sees quarterly earnings increase 17% to $4.9B

UnitedHealth Group saw profits leap 17% to $4.9 billion during the fourth quarter, beating analyst estimates and prompting the company to reiterate its upbeat financial guidance for the new year.

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Bill of the Month: $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug

Dr. Josie Tenore and Paul Hinds were introduced by a mutual friend in 2017 and hadn’t been going out long when she laid down the law: He had to get a physical.

Tribune News Service

For Highland Park man, why did a single shot of a very old cancer drug cost $38,398?

What’s behind the $38,398 price tag for a single dose of the drug to treat prostate cancer? A mixture of unrelenting drug price increases and hospital system consolidation.

Chicago Sun-Times

It cost $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug

Lupron, a drug patented half a century ago, treats advanced prostate cancer. It costs a few hundred dollars in the U.K. — so why are U.S. hospitals charging so much more to administer it?

WEKU

How does online ADHD testing work? Safe Haven uses FDA-cleared devices without an appointment

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Mic

Shell’s offshore medics balloted on possible strike

Union member vote beings tomorrow, with potential industrial action due to begin in late September

Insider UK

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