CORONAVIRUS CASE CONFIRMED IN CHICAGO: Little is known about the respiratory virus, but local hospitals are ramping up efforts to keep patients and employees safe here. READ MORE.
In China, AbbVie’s HIV drugs are being used as an ad hoc treatment for pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus while the global search for a cure continues. READ MORE.
The second case confirmed in the U.S. is a Chicago woman who recently returned to the U.S. from Wuhan, China. Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said this is "not a local emergency." READ MORE.
Memories of the SARS virus in 2003 are still fresh, causing some companies to rethink their staffers' travel plans as a new and unsettling outbreak leaps from China to Chicago. READ MORE.
As of Sunday night, the deadly virus had killed at least 80 people in China. The total number of confirmed cases had risen to more than 2,700, including five cases in the U.S. The New York Times has updates.
INSYS FOUNDER SENTENCED FOR OPIOID FRAUD: Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor, the first top executive of an opioid maker convicted of crimes tied to the painkillers, was sentenced to 5½ years in prison for leading a conspiracy that helped spawn a U.S. crisis over the highly addictive medicines, Bloomberg reports. Prosecutors described Kapoor, who is also the former CEO of Lake Forest pharmaceutical company Akorn, as the "fulcrum" of the conspiracy to generate billions in opioid Subsys sales.
MEDLINE RAMPS UP GOWN PRODUCTION FOLLOWING CARDINAL RECALL: Northfield-based Medline Industries expects to see more demand for its surgical gowns following the recall of 9.1 million potentially contaminated gowns manufactured by Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health. In a Jan. 21 statement, Cardinal said it has learned "some gowns were produced in unapproved locations that did not maintain proper environmental conditions as required by law."
“Our top priority is to ensure our current customers have the essential supplies they need to protect both patients and staff," Medline told Crain's in an emailed statement. "Based on the anticipated impact to health care providers due to the Cardinal Health recall, we are ramping up capacity of our level 3 surgical gowns so we can continue to support and fulfill the needs of health systems and their patients."
HEALTH CARE LOBBY SPENT BIG IN 2019: Major health care companies and lobbying groups spent big in Congress as they fought to advance their interests on surprise medical billing, Affordable Care Act taxes and prescription drug pricing ahead of a big year-end spending deal, and they mostly got their way, Modern Healthcare reports.
The American Hospital Association opposed a bipartisan, bicameral compromise on surprise billing that was ultimately left out of the 2020 appropriations package. The group spent more than $6.6 million on lobbying in the last quarter of 2019, according to federal lobbying disclosures, which is $1.2 million more than it spent over the same period in 2018.
ABBOTT GETS FDA APPROVAL FOR STIMULATION SYSTEM: Abbott Laboratories’ deep brain stimulation system has been approved to treat a new part of the brain, which can result in improving the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, the North Chicago-based company said in a statement. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s approval to use Abbott’s Infinity Deep Brain Stimulation system on an area of the brain called the internal globus pallidus makes the system the only deep brain stimulator approved for all major targets used to treat movement disorders, Parkinson's disease and essential tremor, the statement said. The system uses iOS software and Bluetooth technology to allow clinicians to streamline the programming process with an iPad mini device and lets patients manage their symptoms with an Infinity DBS System iPod touch controller.
PRITZKER SIGNS INSULIN COST BILL INTO LAW: Diabetes patients' out-of-pocket costs for insulin are capped at $100 for a 30-day-supply in Illinois under a law signed Jan. 24 by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. “Health care is a right for all, not a privilege, and that is why I am so proud that we created an insulin price cap that successfully puts patients above profit,” Pritzker said in a statement.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:
• Four financially struggling hospitals have agreed to merge in hopes of transforming care for Chicago residents on the South Side. Advocate Trinity, Mercy, South Shore and St. Bernard plan to create a single system with one leadership team. Crain’s reported late last year that a deal was in the works. READ MORE.
• CommonSpirit Health will become the latest health system to drop the dual CEO model when longtime CEO Kevin Lofton retires this summer. When he steps down June 30, Lofton will have served 17 years as CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives, the predecessor organization that merged with Dignity Health on Feb. 1, 2019 to form Chicago-based CommonSpirit, a massive not-for-profit system with 142 hospitals. READ MORE.
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE:
• Mark Hanrahan has been hired as senior vice president of sales and distribution at VillageMD. Before joining the Chicago-based national primary care company, Hanrahan had more than 25 years of national sales leadership experience at organizations such as Aetna, Optum and, most recently, Vitality USA. READ MORE.
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