Health Care

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TransCode Therapeutics, Inc., an RNA oncology company, announced on July 13 it would close its initial public offering of nearly 7.2 million shares at $4 per share. 

On Wednesday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced a $26-billion dollar resolution with major opioid manufacturers and distributors such as Cardinal, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Johnson & Johnson. 

Public employees in the state who worked in-person during the COVID-19 state of emergency would receive a three-year bonus retirement credit under legislation advocates pitched as a way to recognize the often-times perilous tasks essential workers undertook during the pandemic.

Mohamad Och, a Worcester psychiatrist, was arrested Monday and charged with illegally prescribing controlled substances to patients and submitting false reimbursement claims to Medicare programs.

Mevion Medical Systems, a Littleton manufacturer specializing in proton therapy for cancer, announced Tuesday it delivered a 15-ton compact accelerator to Mercy Hospital in St. Louis.

Q2i, a Boston-based digital health company, announced on Tuesday it has received approval to move to phase two of its Opioid Addiction Recovery Support – Contingency Management software application, a project done in partnership with UMass Medical School in Worcester and UConn School of Medicine.

Worcester social services nonprofit Ascentria Care Alliance announced Wednesday acquisition of the Lutheran Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Center at 26 Harvard St. in Worcester, which included a $16.2-million land purchase of the property.

Fallon Health, the healthcare insurer based in Worcester, announced on Wednesday a partnership with mental health provider Eleanor Health.

MBI President and CEO Jon Weaver spoke with WBJ about the company’s history, its current growth, and new programming.