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In today’s Our Take read-in, we discuss several CMS initiatives announced last Monday. The email version of Our Take includes several important links to other final and proposed rules from CMS. To sign up for the weekly email brief, click here.

Other briefs include:

• Pfizer signed a definitive agreement to merge its Upjohn division with Mylan.
• HHS is working on a plan to allow the legal importation of prescription drugs.
• CMS denies Utah’s request for partial Medicaid expansion.
• Cigna and Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) sign a value-based agreement.
• Philadelphia’s Temple University will sell its Fox Chase Cancer Center to Thomas Jefferson University.

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