and how do you manage those high cost pharmacy drugs. cancer is another category that has again related to drugs, the growth and centers of excellence, cancer centers of excellence is seeing growth in 30% to 40%, steering people to the best places to go for care. they get a high cost claims. all right. other questions? going once. going twice? thank you all very much. >> tonight at 8:00 pm eastern, former president barack obama delivers the annual lecture. >> do we have to abandon our unique national and religious identities. and stopping proud of this tribal heritage. and instead of being a black man and south african. you can be proud of your heritage without denigrating those of a different heritage. >> thursday at 8:00 eastern, youth activist address the us conference of mayors. >> i can't expect the feelings you have during a school shooting. one thing i can relate it to, the feeling of anxiety of uselessness, not be able to do anything, and the united states congress. it might sound like a funny remark but it is no joke. i have spo

he explains that p.b.m.s act as middlemen between the insurance plans, drug makers and pharmacies. he says most consumers have no idea there's a p.b.m., not an insurance company, managing their prescription drug plans. >> there are three main p.b.m.s that take up 85% of the market. you have express scripts, you have cvs caremark, and you have optumrx. >> reporter: the three big p.b.m.s brought more than $300 billion in revenue last y ar. but carrier says tgan with tra modest role in the ind >> so, in the late '60s, early '70s, p.b.m.s started in giving plastic drug cards to consumers so they could go to the pharmacy, they didn't haer a trail of pit made it easier to get prescription drugs. through the years, though, they have gotten re and more power. >> if a patient has insurance, it's going through the p.b.m.s. >> reporter: howard jacobson has been a pharmacist in long, island, new yor 40 years. he says the p.b.m. dictates the amount of the co-pay he collects and how much he's reimbursed. and, he says a few years ago, he started noticing something strange on transactions every cl

and they contract with health plans and pharmacy benefit managers to manage networks and to pay claims on their behalf but most of them are self-insured. business group mission is to keep our members on the leading edge of innovation action when it comes to the delivery, the financing, the consumer experience and the affordability of the health care system. we look to accelerate the adoption of health care innovation as well, and try to improve and address the health and productivity of the global workforce. so this survey is give them what you've seen in the past. we redesigned the survey to provide insight into large employers perspectives on the rapid change we are seeing in the health care environment. that in addition to what we typically provide which is health care cost information, plan design comparisons and employee trend information, employer trend information terms of initiative there driving. we asked employers questions regarding how is the role evolving with the management of health care. we asked about the strategy lays within the organization. when asked about their th

this coming together of pharmacy and high-cost claims. i think employers are really , how do youout manage those high-cost specialty pharmacy drugs. that is one of those in the mix of high-cost claims. cancer is in the category, related to drugs. it is a high-cost claim category. out -- getng to get at some of these. 30%-40% of companies will offer cancer coe's next year. that is one of the better ways to get out of high cost claims. alright. other questions? going once. going twice. alright, thank you all very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> this week, a panel of former clerks to supreme court justice nominee rick cavanagh discuss their experience working with him on the d.c. circuit court of appeals. that is thursday at 12:00 eastern on c-span. ,> c-span's washington journal live every date with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, insid

. >>> retail and pharmacy benefits giant cvs health reported adjusted despite expectations. bertha coombs report, the pharmacy firm is reassuring investors that its merger with etna is on track and i that business model, though under a fault, still benefits employers andrs consu >>> cvs executis are upbeat about the r biew. their $6lion deal by etna. on the company's earnings call, larry merlow says he's confident the deal will close this year. >>l can tel you we are having productive discussions with regulators. >> and merlow pushed back at some of the regulatory pressure coming from e trump administration over rebates. those confidential price discounts pharmacy benefits firms like cvs expect from drugmakers. >> drug manufacturers want youi to b that increasing drug prices are a result of them having to pay rebates and that pbms are retaining the rebates and this is simply not true. our data shows that with it's increasing faster for drugs with small rebates than it is with medications withia substa rebates. >> the administration has yet to finalize rules on rebates, but m

anthem is building out an in-house pharmacy benefits manager.e will have again a platform at scale across medical and pharmacy. cigna is a $45 billion company. something. to do investors hoped they would buy or merge with humana. the antitrust stance was unclear. express scripts gives them a different angle and platform across medical and pharmacy. they know only have at scale but huge cash flow. six and a half billion dollars a year they can use to buy other assets going forward. caroline: as these companies start to streamline they are becoming bigger. their bureaucracy may slow them down when they need to be nimble. they had amazon biting at their heels. have amazon coming into that part of the business. thishese big for tackle competitor? flex the investor base has been skeptical about the value of pharmacy benefits manager's. you have new interests that are disruptive and then you have the hhs organizations with trump and secretary a's are coming in trying to reform the drug pricing, eliminating rebates and so on. we think pharmacy benefits

billionaire activist investor carl icahn wrote a letter to buy the pharmacy benefitsanager.esponded by saying that mr. icahn's view does not represent those ofgn s other shareholders. bertha coombs has been following lee drama for us. >>> carl icahn c cigna's megade megadeal a $60 billion folly. the activist investor when has taken a stake in cigna is urging others to vote against the deale arguing that insurers paying a 50% premium for express scripts at a time when the pharmacy management business model is under siege from regulators to the secretary o health and others who have been critic of confidential rebate agreements which allow the pbms to secure discounts from drugmakers. icuen also a that amazon's entrance into the pharmacy business recently acquiring pill pa will also dermine the deal. in his letter icahn warns purchasing express scripts will be one of the worst blunders in corporate history, up there with the time warner-aol fiasco and general ectric valued destruction. icahn believed cigna would be better off building its own pharmacy unit and returning cash t

she says she called 34 pharmacies near denver searching for the critical medicine before finding one 40 minutes away. >> you have to have it if you have a severe allergy. >> reporter: this mom near dallas didn't have much luck either. >> i started calling, and calling, and calling, and it didn't matter who i called, walgreens, cvs, tom thumb, albertson, nobody had it. >> reporter: epipens help treat allergic reactions to things like insect stings, medications, and food. the end of the summer is often a peak season for refills, but according to the fda, shortages began in may. in a statement, myland, the company that sells epipens, says they "continue to experience interruptions" and supplies vary from pharmacy to pharmacy, but that they're "actively exploring several options that would help stabilize the supply." after calling several pharmacies, megan brunson finally found one for her 11-year-old son, and offers this warning. >> be on the hunt. it's going to take some time. >> reporter: tom, just last week, the fda approved the first generic epipen. that's good news for availability

she called moreochan eight l pharmacies before she found one, th one set her insurance will cover. >> i said, put it on hold, i will be there in the gorning, i there, last box. >> reporter: mylin says it's exploring options with its manufacturing partner, pfizer, to stabilize supply. pfizer says it's experiencing delayed shipments due to process changesnd cited supply of third-party components in the manufacturing process. epipen isn't the only option on the market. there's also the click and the avicue, b it's the most dominant. >> the school prefers the epipe' because t what they have trained their staff in how to administer. >> reporte just this week fda approved the first generic competitor to the ipen. mylin introduced its own generic at t end of 2016. this is the first directly bstitutable productold by another company. that company, teva sarmaceuticals, said i applying full resources to the launch in the coming months. but that may not be soon enough to help parents like alir get ready ck to school. as hudson prepares to start first grade, his ipen is one of his most important

the drugs were dispensed by this pharmacy in bolton called natcol. it's also owned by riaz vali.tics? they were hired by treated.com through julian eden's romanian company eurorx. time for our undercover laurence to meetjulian eden again. she takes a colleague with her. i'm fine, thank you, and you? they ask him more question about his doctor hire company in romania. what's the name of the company? eurorx. where's the company based? romania. 0k. so we contact them? you email them. so how much do the doctors cost? are they very expensive? no, they're not, they're quite... they‘ re quite reasonably priced, yeah. you pay these doctors per prescription. you don't get, they're not employed by you guys. so the pricing would be per consultation, then? yeah. do you have an idea of the price? no, between £5 and £10. 0k. per accepted prescription. doctors paid per accepted prescription and not in the best interests of their patients. i take a very dim view of anybody who profits from human misery and harm, and the reality is, if people are prescribing inappropriately and in unsafe ways, th

well, actually they did, but then they first, pharmacy chain rite aid and grocer albertson's called off merger inrowing opposition. they recommended shareholders vote against the deal.ec this is thed failed merger for rite aid. hast year its merger w walgreen's was scrapped. albertson's was privately held and rite aid shares were down 11.5% to $1.54. bertha coombs has more. >> rite aid and albertson's break up came down to money. they felt the $25 billion deal would leave them with too little of the combined fir if the merger were completed. shareholder advisory firms came t the same conclusion. albertson's saids not willing to change the terms of the offer so the two firms agreed to call off the deal with no break-up fee. albertson's ownedri pvate equity firm who had looked to bring the grocery chain public saw the deal with rite aid as w a to leverage its stores with health care. now some s analysts investors may not be of interest in an ipo. rite aid and albertson's have both looked mergers to be able to better compete in a tough retail environment and a ne standafirm, their faiths a

of pharmacy spending today.laims, youh costs have cancer, you have certain disease categories, and then you have price. price keeps going up. our guest is with us until 9:20. the perspective of large employees, 202, 7 8000. how did the affordable care act change things once it was fully implemented? what did it do? >> in general he didn't have a material impact on active employee population. it did provide access for part-time employees to public exchanges and retirees to public exchanges. there is that benefit. there were some requirements in additional burdens on employers but overall the public exchange concept was a good one to bring access to a broader population. the one piece of the affordable care act that was more thelematic and still is was cadillac tax, which was basically a tax intended to be on high cost health plans but it would tax all health plans. this was supposed to go to and affect in 2018. that accelerated movement to more consumer directed health plans. togot kicked down the road 2020. now

they are not a national pharmacy. if they can exist in this new transformational environment. julie: why is there a smaller size such a disadvantage for the company? jonathan:jonathan: the way pharmacies work is being part of a network. somebody has a national network that is more advantageous than being part of a smaller regional or state network. this national footprint before. it does not necessarily have critical mass. now they have a smaller footprint and still key states on the wesson nash -- west and east coast. julie: when you talk about other competitors, you are talking about cvs. i want to talk about cigna. favor have after not in of the deal, we had glenview, is significant shareholder coming out and saying they are in favor of what do you think of the pricing on this deal? jonathan: i think they both make pretty good points. carl is very succinct and pointing out that the environment is changing rapidly. we don't know what the future for pbm's is. on the other side committees have been investors in the sp

"i left the pharmacy and sat in my car and cried. i don't have the money. i have love and worry 24/7." a yale university study finds one in four diabetics cuts you back on insulin because of cost. mostly middle class americans with limited insurance putting themselves at great risk. >> over time, if the blood sugar is not in check, it leads to complications such as blindness, kidney disease, nerve disease, amputations. >> reporter: president trump has promised to bring drug prices hhs secretary, alex azar, came from insulin maker eli lilly, which more than doubled insulin prices from 2011 to 2016. in a statement limby says, "in the last 18 months we have introduced a number of initiatives to help reduce the amount people pay at the pharmacy and provide access to lower income people with diabetes." but for alex smith's mother -- >> the child that i gave birth to, my flesh and blood, i lost him because of pharmaceutical agreed. >> reporter: a lifetime of heartbreak. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> we'll take a short break here. when we come back, one

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to pharmacy and they're actively exploring options.inally found one for her son and offers this warning. >> be on the hunt. it's going to take some time. >> reporter: and just last week, the fda approved the first generic epi-pen. that is good news for availability and for price. without insurance, epipens could cost you several hundred dollars. janai norman, abc news, washington. >>> coming up in the next half hour, the frightening moments on the racetrack. a driver sent flying out of his car and that collision. >>> and the number one movie. that's next on "world news now." that's next on "world news now." >>> and the number one movie. that's next on "world news now." around here, nobody evreally? it i didn't do it so when i heard they added ultra oxi to the cleaning power of tide, i knew it was just what we needed so now we can undo all the tough stains that nobody did dad? i didn't do it it's got to be tide did you know that people born from 1945 through 1965 have the highest rates of hepatitis c, but most don't know they're infecte

. >> i just received a phone call from the mail order pharmacy that i usthey said they didn't have any. that's concerning because suppl order pharmacy. >> the fda has extended the expiration dates for certain products by 4 months to help deal with the shortage. >>> a well-known bay area- based hardware store closing its doors for good. >> it appears that's not good enough to stay in business these days. >> up next tonight, why some are calling it the end of an era and what's next for the stores' employees. >> not as much fog as yesterday. temperatures warmer today. air quality is better, as well. when i come back, we'll line up the bay area weekend. >> and coming up at 7:00 on ktvu plus, hawaii braces for hurricane lane and an elite bay area search-and-rescue team heads to the island. we'll talk live with the bay area fire chief who is the head of that unit. plus, one day after pleading guilty to federal crimes, word that president trump's former personal attorney is involved in another investigation of the trump foundation charity. >>> it is official. lowe's is shutting down orchard s

the pharmacy is only filling it with one pen. kaiser said once supplies return to normal, the limit will be removed and they are working with other manufactures concerning supplies. >> well, so you get a prescription for two, you go in and get one, can you go back and get the second? >> you can but they're telling people you have to wait a week, sometimes a month. when they go back to get the other half, they're being charged a second co-pay so they're essentially paying twice the co-pay for the full prescription. >>> still ahead, a debate over confederate statue at a university in the south get ugly. >> protesters square off. >>> plus one of the bay area's biggest school districts decides to scrap half of its sports programs him we'll tell you what's on the chopping block. morning. the time is _ _. i'm melissa caen. good m >>> and welcome back to kpix 5 this morning. the time is 6:29. >> we will start with a check of our forecast this half hour. taking a live look outside over the golden gate this morning, you can see gray skies

i saw the pharmacy would not be of the do anything and i needed something was wrong and needed medicalr do? the doctor had look at them both. as it doctors working on them and did did not really see someone because they get to that dad was more ill and he took priority. they tried basically to save his life and they couldn‘t do it. they did cpr on him. he must have declined very rapidly. you could see in the matter of minutes you could see him dying. and you we re you could see him dying. and you were there watching it?|j you could see him dying. and you were there watching it? i was there watching the whole time, yes. how is your mum? she had no idea what was going on. she was oblivious. she was so poorly. once my father died my mother was taken to the clinic in the hospital and they put her on a trip to try and get some glucose into her big they thought it was dehydration from the vomiting. that did not work and an ambulance was called. and then? we arrived at the hospital and she was wheeled straightaway into the emergency room where doctors were working on her, but unfortunately it

and about half the patients at the fresh food pharmacy carry our insurance. and we have shared our results with them and they're like, yes, this is great, let's expand. we need to do more of this and we expect that medicare and medicaid will follow >> i was going to say, that's the big nut, right if you get medicare and medicaid to sign off on something like this, that is a game changer basically the entire industry will follow what they do >> absolutely. and that's why we're going to perform a randomized controlled trial starting in the fall to prove our outcomes it's one thing to say we've done this with a group of patients. it's another thing to scientifically prove it. >> and just in terms of what this could mean, obviously, we've focused here on diabetes and pre-diabetes, are there other illnesses that could be at least helped by a program like this >> absolutely. so, one out of every two americans suffers with chronic diseases and many of those diseases relate to lifestyle conditions, like obesity, hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes. we currently

this woman with a son with a nut allergy said she was surprised the pharmacy didn't have any epipensum, received a phone call from mail order pharmacy that i use and they said they didn't have any stock. it really raised concerns for me because they are a national supplier mail order pharmacy. >> the fda has also extended expiration dates for certain epipen products by four months to help deal with this issue. >>> a san francisco security firm is credited with alerting the democratic national committee about an attempted cyber attack. the dnc says hackers were trying to get into a database that houses information on tens of millions of voters across the country. the security firm lookout uncovered a fake log-in site yesterday using artificial intelligence before any damage could be done. the company says the hackers were trying to steal user names and passwords. >> what it was is a copy of a log-in page. i'll be honest, it was an incredibly high fidelity copy. nobody who looked at the two sites side by side could tell the difference between them. it was -- it was indistinguishable. >

it has a plan to become the pharmacy to the world. i predict within a decade, maybe less number may be more china could overtake india as a dominant generic drug manufacturer. right now china's biggest footprint in the united states is making the active ingredients in so many of our medicines. there the part of our medicines that give us the therapeutic value and they make thousands of active ingredients for many of our medicines that we find in our home. medicine chest and in hospitals all over the country. many people that we spoke to both former government officials and from industry said that of china shut the door on exports, within months pharmacy shelves in the united states with the empty and hospitals would cease to function. so, how did we get here? what about other countries? one of the most interesting fact that i learned is that even india which is a dominant generic drug manufacturer, even india is dependent on china for the active ingredients and raw materials in many of the medicines it makes not only for its own peopl

about 25 feet have you got another pharmacy dale hollow pharmacy.cting that you are dispensing more opioids than you should be? >> i really have no comment. >> but can you explain why so much traffic in this little town? why four big drugstores? >> no, sir. there is no comment. >> the four of them actually are very high prescribers or dispensers of the opioid drug that we're looking at de laud did morphine and oxycodone. >> how is it they justify 1.3 million pills dispensed in a community where there is 1500 people in the town, 5,000 in the entire county? >> that's why we are here. we want to find out why the high prescribing of four pharmacies a stone's throw away from each other. >> the county is actually 7,000 people. my goodness it's so obvious drugstores are there not to serve a legitimate purpose steve, brian, and katie but really to be drug dispense. they are in the business of dispensing opioids, opioids contributing so malignantly to the epidemic, 72,000 americans last year died of overdoses. many of the people being treated by the way are

is mediate between drug makers pharmacies employers and insurance plans in order to shake out savings and pocket a portion of what they find their role was enhanced by the affordable care act but in recent years p b m's have been criticized by some as profit taking millman c.e.o. marlo said the real culprit in the steadily rising prices for lifesaving drugs are not p.b.s. but manufacturer rebates mr brewer told reporters on an earnings call yesterday that our data show that the list price for increasing faster for drugs with smaller rebates than it is for medications with substantial rebates c.b.s. the second quarter revenue was reported forty six point seven billion dollars with thirty three billion in revenue from caremark their c. subsidiary caremark revenue was up two point six eight percent outpacing two point two percent overall growth in c.v.s. revenue. i. in breaking news today we've spoken before about the sinclair broadcast group which made local anchors for some silly script about being independent you may recall it treasure valley communities deal past the loss christmas c

is mediate between drug makers pharmacies employers and insurance plans in order to shake out savings and pocket a portion of what they find their role was enhanced by the affordable care act but in recent years p b m's have been criticized by some as profit taking millman c.e.o. marlow said the real culprit in the steadily rising prices for lifesaving drugs are not p.b.s. but manufacturer rebates mr brewer told reporters on an earnings call yesterday that our data show that the list price for increasing faster for drugs with smaller rebates than it is for medications with substantial rebates c.b.s. the second quarter revenue was reported forty six point seven billion dollars with thirty three billion in revenue from caremark their c. subsidiary caremark revenue was up two point six eight percent outpacing two point two percent overall growth in c.v.s. revenue. breaking news today we've spoken before about the sinclair broadcast group which made local anchors some silly script about being independent you may recall it treasure valley communities deal past the las cruces communities ea

imported goods are getting more expensive by the day if they're even to be found new stock at last for pharmacy on a bill and to move to peru relief among staff is palpable the labor is lost in value against the dollar has made some products like this medication to fight high blood pressure hard to come by. the first sign that something was wrong was that we were no longer getting discounts on large orders. right now there are around one hundred types of medication that you can't get. the lira is plunging practically by the minute leaving the people of turkey to watch in despair as their currency nosedives president rich have aired on holds the united states responsible for his talk is a trade war albeit one he says turkey will win. that the mood on the streets though is less defiant. should listen the typical good of the less i don't know that i need to finance my child's education i don't know how i'm supposed to manage my pension is worth fifteen hundred lire that's around two hundred dollars i get to take it to we don't own any property we live from our pensions more and more we're asking o

a pharmacy in a typical athens neighborhood most of those who live here belong to the middle class costas antonopoulos has known many of his customers for years. it used to be rare that someone had a problem paying but that's changed with cuts to pension benefits and the rise in drug co-pays things have gotten tighter for more customers if you've got money then we had to have money. or in my head it was they didn't know what they think they were that my birth i feel like giving you the medicine maybe you come by with the money we send them you don't come home with them running. three kilometers away on land that once belonged to an airport is the headline a conflict people can come here when they don't have enough money for their medicine when the clinic was founded in two thousand and eleven it was intended to help the thousands who had lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs but today it sees more pensioners and the chronically ill this man has diabetes. then if. i get die again as usual i don't have enough money to live and now i need very specific drugs but i can't pay f

is one huge downside there's hardly any rain that's threatening the livelihoods of thousands of pharmacy in fact drought is wreaking havoc around the world some countries have even declared a state of emergency. the drought has affected all of northern europe even north of the arctic circle temperatures rose above thirty degrees at times scandinavian farmers are expecting the worst harvest in a quarter of a century the governments of lithuania have both declared a state of emergency farmers in poland and the czech republic watching their crops wilt and expect the damage to be long term experts say climate change is at least partly responsible for the drought and expect further problems around the globe or climate models are seeing that the negative impacts of climate change are all made revolts or will be much more severe regions of africa and europe and that means. because. negative movie where people already were and that's something we need to take very seriously. africa for one has been hit by an unusually severe drought this year cape town became the first metropolis to strictly rat

oxycontin operate and they made billions by rebranding pain relief as a god given right and turning pharmacy only internal documents say produce ambition was to attach an emotional aspect to non-cancer pain so that doctors would feel pressure to treat it more seriously and aggressively it was produced marketing that spurred an early prices for to kills one hundred fifteen people every day now it's finally no secret that this crisis tears more families apart than having one parent who went to michigan and the other who went to ohio state but whereas produce exactly have gone off without any jail time there still could be time served for instance higher ups seven and says top executives including its c.e.o. john kapoor were indicted on fraud and conspiracy charges and face trial and twenty nineteen but as long as a profit motive exists to push these drugs the name subsists will be defined as yet another opioid that got the fenceless americans cooked. and it will never live up to its true potential as the name of the toxic bread vapor and every subway restaurant seriously what the fuck is that

new stock at last for pharmacy owner bullet move to glue the relief among staff is palpable the lead us loss in value against the dollar has made some products like this medication to fight high blood pressure hard to come by. the first sign that something was wrong was that we were no longer getting discounts on large orders right now with our around one hundred types of medication you can no longer get the leader has plunged over the last few days leaving the people of turkey to watch in the spares their currency nosedives president present type of add on holds the united states responsible for his talk because of a trade war albeit one he says turkey will when the mood on the streets though is less defiant. i need to find this my child's education i don't know how i'm supposed to manage my pension is worth one thousand five hundred lire that's around two hundred dollars. ticket we don't own any proper see we live from our pensions increasingly we're offering ourselves if we're going to have to go hungry god help us. economist most of our sun mess things the government should step

identical to the ones produced by the body are also coming to the form they are manufactured in pharmacies but not with natural agents as the name bio suggests but rather after a large number of synthesis steps. the base material for the bio identical hormones is yam root for the industrially manufactured ones to the so-called natural hormones are individually adapted to the patient's hormone level supposedly they do not have side effects but women are advised to have checkups on a regular basis or to have saliva tests done which they must pay for themselves. in europe these natural hormones must be prescribed not in the us where women can buy them without a prescription potentially at a dose that is too low. and that is what is such a risk says professor pauline mackie psychiatry just from chicago. the reason that women take up or just share with their pastor jim if they have a some other symptoms is to protect the uterus against cancer it's very important that women get an adequate dose of projects around when they're doing that or one of the concerns with compounded i always outcome of

and the state pharmacy board. they told us it may be technically legal to split the prescriptions but they must be properly labored with the patient's name and that's not happening, at least in the case this is a we are hearing. >> are they charging half price or full price? >> they are paying their full copays. in some cases, people don't have copays. but people who do have copays, they call them. but there is another maker of the pen, called ovq but when ovq is called, they say that they are out what they find out that they are covered by kaiser. >>> and using rap music to get to the heart of some powerful stories. we'll introduce you to this week's jefferson award winner and show you how he is helping young people. >>> and meet our pet of the week and how you can make cookie part of your family. john cog-dell hasn't been seen since wednesday. he t midday in the >>> concern is growing for a missing park employmentey at yosemite. john cogdale has not been seen since wednesday. he vanished about midday in the uppe

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