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Home health company Aveanna (AVAH) provides in-home healthcare to some of the most “medically complex, high-cost patient populations,” according to the company’s SEC filings. Those patients often require round-the-clock nursing care and help with activities such as bathing and...
Dentsply Sirona (XRAY), the parent company of at-home orthodontic treatment Byte, announced yesterday that it was voluntarily suspending the sales of Byte aligners and impression kits. On a phone call this morning, Dentsply Sirona CEO Simon Campion told investors that the suspension was...
HELP Committee ranking member lambasts FDA Commissioner for inaction on clarifying patent listing requirements on the FDA Orange Book. Echoing concerns raised by industry stakeholders, Bill Cassidy (R-LA) wrote a letter to the FDA saying the agency’s reticence has resulted in the FTC...
It’s been nearly a year since the Federal Reserve proposed lowering the costs of debit card swipe fees and big banks hope the delay might mean the proposal is in trouble. The Fed capped swipe fees at 21 cents plus a small fraction of the transaction amount back in 2011. For more than a...
Stockholder dividend-taking and a rapid growth in American National Insurance Company’s annuity business leaves policyholders’ retirement security at risk, a Capitol Forum investigation has...
The Bancorp, Inc. (TBBK) quietly downgraded $87 million in real estate bridge loans (REBL) last quarter and may be extending concessions to more of these loans than disclosed, according to a Capitol Forum review of Bancorp’s filings and earnings call...
The FTC has asked software industry participants whether their concerns with IBM’s proposed $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp would be addressed by placing the target firm’s cloud management software within a foundation that would guarantee open-source access to the products,...
Epic v. Google judge rejects refusal-to-deal defense in sweeping injunction; Google set to appeal. For three years, Google (GOOG) must open its Google Play ecosystem to competing app stores, Northern District of California Court Judge James Donato ruled Monday in an injunction that mostly...
Kamala Harris avoids committing to keep on FTC Chair Lina Khan. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that at a meeting with the Teamsters union, a Teamsters board member asked Harris for a commitment to keep Khan in place at the FTC. Harris then declined to make that commitment,...
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