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STAT+: 3 trends to watch in hospitals and health insurance in 2023

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For almost three years, hospitals and health insurers have been riding the waves of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, Medicaid enrollment soared more than 30% from December 2019 to August 2022 , reaching 83.5 Even though they can better predict what lies ahead in 2023, there remain several big unknowns. million people.

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STAT+: New antibiotics were underprescribed for hard-to-treat infections, study finds

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regulators approved several new antibiotics for combating hard-to-treat bacteria during a recent five-year period, hospital doctors instead gave older, generic remedies to more than 40% of patients battling those stubborn pathogens, according to a new analysis. Although U.S. And cost may also be an issue.

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Opinion: Independent doctors like me are becoming an endangered species

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More than 100,000 doctors have  left private practice  and become employees of hospitals and other corporate entities since 2019. Today, nearly  three in four physicians  are employees of larger health care entities or other corporations — a record high.

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STAT+: CommonSpirit’s answer to losing money: get bigger

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CommonSpirit Health keeps adding more hospitals — and billions in new debt — even as it bleeds money. Formed through a 2019 merger and headquartered in Chicago, CommonSpirit is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health systems, with north of 140 hospitals.

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Hospital Pharmacy FAQ

RX Note

What can I expect once I entered hospital provisional registered pharmacist training? In most hospitals, you first introduction to your workplace is through an induction period during which you are shown many different areas and meet many new people.

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Pharmacist Job Market in 2019: Salaries Grew, Retail-to-Hospital Employment Shift Accelerated

Drug Channels

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released its employment data for 2019. Total pharmacist employment grew in 2019. Consistent with our previous analyses, the share of pharmacists who work at hospitals reached a new high. However, the number of pharmacists working in retail settings decreased.

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Could FDA recommend new antibiotic for hospital-acquired pneumonia?

European Pharmaceutical Review

A Phase III trial has found that the novel combination antibiotic sulbactam-durlobactam prevents at least as many fatalities of hospital-acquired pneumonia as colistin, the best currently approved treatment. However, with these positive trial results, there is potential for the FDA to approve the new antibiotic.

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