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Medicare Advantage pushback


 

Doctors are pushing back on a CMS policy change aimed at controlling spending on prescription drugs administered in the office. Also today, low-dose CT scan fails to improve small cell lung cancer survival, a French study warns a rise in penicillin-resistant pneumococcal meningitis, and opioids are driving down the life expectancy in the U.S. and are one of the reasons that more Americans aren’t living into their golden years.

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