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BC’s Pharmacare Expansion: What $670M Deal Means for Drug Coverage & Gaps

Americas Policy Health Care and Social Assistance

BC signed a federal pharmacare deal worth ove...

The plan builds on BC's existing free prescri...

PharmaCare is also updating policies on prost...

Patient advocates argue major gaps remain bec...

2025 Reconciliation Law’s Healthcare Cuts Threaten Coverage, Medicaid, Rural Hospitals

Americas Policy General Medical and Surgical Hospitals

The 2025 budget law (P.L. 119-21) cuts roughl...

Medicaid adds an 80-hours/month work or commu...

ACA marketplace coverage faces shorter open e...

Medicare trims Part D low-income subsidies an...

US Freezes Child Care Funding Amid Fraud Probes: Impacts For States, Providers & Minorities

Americas Policy Social Assistance

HHS is rolling back parts of a 2024 child car...

After fraud allegations in Minnesota went vir...

The new rules apply to all states and require...

Mississippi, which received about $170 millio...

Medline’s $7.2B IPO Soars 40%: Debt Reduction, Growth Drive Investor Buzz

Americas Markets Health Care and Social Assistance

Medline priced an upsized IPO at $29 per shar...

Roughly 179 million shares’ proceeds will pay...

The remainder of proceeds will redeem equity ...

The deal, the largest U.S. IPO since 2021, sa...

Medline IPO Rockets to ~$40, Raising $6.26B: Valuation Hits $50–$55B

Americas Markets Health Care and Social Assistance

Medline’s IPO raised about $6.3 billion at $2...

The company will use most proceeds to pay dow...

Strong first-day trading and rich valuation m...

The deal’s scale and PE backing could reopen ...

What IASIS Healthcare’s IPO Withdrawal Reveals About Hospital Finance Challenges

Americas M&A Ambulatory Health Care Services

IASIS Healthcare, a private equity-backed hos...

The company owned 15 acute care hospitals, on...

IASIS withdrew its roughly US$300 million IPO...

In 2017, Steward Health Care acquired IASIS’s...

2025 Biopharma M&A Booms: Patent Cliff Spurs Big Pharma to Secure Late-Stage Assets

Global M&A Health Care and Social Assistance

Biopharma M&A in 2025 shifted to fewer but mu...

Headline acquisitions such as J&J–Intra-Cellu...

Patent cliffs threaten roughly $180–230 billi...

Deal structures feature heavier use of milest...

How 340B, ACA Subsidy Rollbacks & PBM Reform Will Reshape Strategy for Insurers & Health Providers

Americas Policy Health Care and Social Assistance

In 2025, Republicans shifted from defending A...

GOP legislative focus centered on tightening ...

A federal court halted HRSA’s 340B Rebate Mod...

With enhanced ACA subsidies set to lapse at t...

Q3 US Equity Roundup: Dividend Growth Holds While S&P Trails Amid Policy, Inflation Risks

Americas Markets Health Care and Social Assistance

Bristol Gate’s US Equity Strategy posted posi...

The portfolio’s edge remains its focus on hig...

Healthcare holdings like UnitedHealth and The...

Management is tilting further toward resilien...

Feinstein-Blum Allegations: Allogene Trades, Blind Trusts & Ethics in Senate

Americas Policy Health Care and Social Assistance

In early 2020, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husban...

Feinstein says the assets were in a blind tru...

The FBI questioned Feinstein, but the Justice...

The episode highlights ongoing concerns about...