Medicare fee-for-service improper payments dropped to their lowest level since 2010 this year, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced on Nov. 16.

Drug manufacturer Pfizer announced it would raise the prices of 41 drugs in January 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Not-for-profit hospitals may have already reached their financial peak, according to an analysis from Fitch Ratings. Lower operating margins and lower reimbursement payments are causing many hospital systems to rethink care delivery, but not all providers are able to meet the challenges head on, particularly in a period of mass consolidation.

Jacksonville, Florida-based TIAA Bank announced Friday, Nov. 16, that it has acquired $1.5 billion in healthcare equipment leases and loans from GE Capital’s Healthcare Equipment Finance business. The move is part of GE Capital’s mission to become “smaller and more focused” moving forward.

GE Capital, the financial services division of GE, has sold is Healthcare Equipment Finance business to TIAA Bank for $1.5 billion.

The NFL has awarded more than $35 million in grants to fund research into brain health and concussions. These grants, the league said, are a part of its previously announced $40 million investment in funding medical research “focused on enhancing player health and safety.”

Radiation oncologist Timothy Showalter, MD, and breast cancer surgeon Shayna Showalter, MD, of the University of Virginia Cancer Center in Charlottesville, have been awarded a five-year grant of more than $1.8 million for their work on improving care for early-stage breast cancer patients.

Another regulator has cleared the way for the $69 billion deal between CVS Health and Aetna, as California approved the deal—with conditions.