Kimberly Brock, vice president of communications at IQ Solutions, talks about the company’s public health work with federal agencies and nonprofits to ensure greater access to healthcare.

Dallas police have identified the two healthcare workers who were shot and killed by a gunman at the Methodist Dallas Medical Center on Saturday. Nestor Hernandez, 30, shot and killed two nurses who reportedly worked in the maternity ward at the hospital, before being wounded by a police officer and taken into custody.

Late last week, the Health and Resources Services Administration (HRSA) sent a letter to Merck warning that it may be dealt monetary penalties for allegedly refusing to give 340B discounts to covered entities.

Optum is seeing an increase of new orphan drugs, and expects this trend to continue, if not accelerate, according to a drug pipeline report from the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary. What makes this important, said Sumit Dytta, chief medical officer at OptumRx, is that orphan drugs are priced more than 30 times higher than non-orphan drugs. […]