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Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States—Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx—have engaged in anticompetitive practices that spur price increases, the Federal Trade Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday.

The 4 doctors on the Ont. gov’t’s negotiating team ‘help the ministry understand’ implications of OMA proposals, he says.

Mike Goetz has added bill collector to his list of responsibilities as mayor of Merritt in British Columbia’s Interior. In June, he sent the province an invoice for $103,831.87, the cost, he said, for closures of the Nicola Valley Hospital emergency room.

An Alberta doctors' group says even though a new pay deal with the province is ready to be implemented, the government isn't putting its money where its mouth is.

Health Minister Christian Dubé said on X that the government never intended to restrict services.

Ontario’s Bill 7 allows hospitals to place discharged patients into long-term care homes not of their choosing or charge them $400 per day if they refuse.

They are part of a pilot project that Allison Bodnar, CEO of the Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia, says has “transformed the way primary care is delivered in Nova Scotia.”

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences will now be using pharmacogenetic testing for patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.