The health authority’s CEO, Athana Mentzelopoulos, says it does an average 100,000 referrals per year, but in some cases it can’t confirm if patients received referral services.
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.
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.
After years of lamenting (okay, let’s be honest—complaining about) any changes our local government makes that I don’t like, I recently went to my first community planning meeting.
Girls as young as 8 are turning up at dermatologists’ offices with rashes, chemical burns and other allergic reactions to products not intended for children’s sensitive skin.
