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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare Anthem grows Q2 profitability, preps for Cigna takeover 8:45:00 AM Low medical costs and growth in Medicaid membership raised the second-quarter bottom line at Anthem. Now, the Indianapolis-based health insurer will turn its focus on getting approval for its $54.2 billion takeover of rival Cigna Corp. Gilead Sciences continues to ride the wave of hep C meds in Q2 Tuesday, July 28, 2015 7:58 PM Sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni accounted for 60% of Gilead's revenue for the second quarter of 2015. The drugs have treated more than 180,000 hepatitis C patients in the U.S. and Europe since the beginning of the year, according to the company. Steward faces fines in Mass. over delays in filing financial results Tuesday, July 28, 2015 5:15 PM Steward Health Care, a Boston-based, private equity-backed hospital chain, is facing fines in Massachusetts for failing to file its financial statements on time. CMS projects higher healthcare spending growth through 2024 Tuesday, July 28, 2015 5:00 PM The historically low growth rates of national health spending over the last several years may be history. CMS officials say the Affordable Care Act's insurance expansion, an improving economy, an aging population and expensive new drugs are pushing... HHS: No evidence of fraudulent HealthCare.gov enrollment Tuesday, July 28, 2015 3:45 PM HHS is not aware of any consumers intentionally falsifying information to get subsides for insurance exchange coverage, Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell testified Tuesday. This month, the GAO said investigators were able to sign up for coverage, get... Burwell: HHS not investigating Planned Parenthood following video leaks Tuesday, July 28, 2015 3:21 PM There are no current plans for HHS to investigate Planned Parenthood for providing fetal tissue to researchers, Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said Tuesday. Some want the provider's funding pulled after leaked videos show doctors discussing... Pfizer sales, earnings still in patent-cliff plunge Tuesday, July 28, 2015 3:15 PM Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Tuesday reported continuing declines in sales and earnings as it girds for the loss of patent protection in Europe and Japan of Enbrel, its rheumatoid arthritis drug. Bad metrics put patients at risk, prevent providers from improving Tuesday, July 28, 2015 3:00 PM The hospitals most likely to be penalized under the federal hospital-acquired-condition reduction program are those that are Joint Commission accredited and do well on other publicly reported quality measures, a new study finds. LabCorp rebounds in second quarter Tuesday, July 28, 2015 1:06 PM Having rebounded from the cost of both acquiring Covance and a corporate restructuring, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Tuesday reported a jump in its second-quarter earnings.

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