Reimbursement Briefs: Pfizer Joins Big Data Group; Part D Protected Classes; Wikipedia Partners With Cochrane Collaboration
Executive Summary
Pfizer is among seven organizations joining the Optum Labs research collaborative; CMS Coverage and Analysis Group Director Louis Jacques moving to private sector, more news in brief.
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