Healthcare
Doctors in Quebec feel overpaid, demand less pay!
09 Mar 2018
More than 750 doctors, residents and medical students from the Canadian province of Quebec signed a petition that requests their recently-agreed raises be cancelled, noting that drastic cuts by the government left some citizens without access to necessary medical services
US health insurer Cigna to buy Express Scripts in $67-bn deal
08 Mar 2018
The acquisition highlights a trend toward cost-control through the merger of insurers with medical suppliers and healthcare providers
Private hospitals fleecing patients on consumables, diagnostics
21 Feb 2018
An analysis of bills from four reputed private hospitals in Delhi and NCR by the NPPA reveals that they are making profits of up to 1,737 per cent on drugs, consumables and diagnostics that are not price controlled
NPPA lowers ceiling on stent prices further
13 Feb 2018
The maximum price of bare metal stent has been fixed at Rs7,660 against Rs8,000 earlier and that of drug-eluting stents (DES) at Rs27,890 against Rs31,000 previously
Singh brothers quit Fortis Board
09 Feb 2018
Late on Thursday, the Singh brothers – also the promoters of Ranbaxy Laboratories - stepped down from the Fortis board in connection with a case against Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo which they lost in the Delhi High Court
