Under increasing legal pressure to ensure they aren’t wasting money on overpriced health insurance for their workers, employers are challenging pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) outsized influence in the prescription-drug...
Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison and Blue Cross Minnesota have come to an agreement guaranteeing that the insurer will cover mental-health or substance-abuse treatments the same way that they...
Four North Carolina hospital systems will join Atrium Health in releasing liens placed on the homes of consumers who owe medical debt, according to The Charlotte Ledger. Gastonia-based...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry is suing Prospect Medical Holdings and its former parent company, private equity firm Leonard Green, over its failure to provide adequate care for consumers,...
Across the health care system, but particularly in mental health care, so-called ghost networks hamper consumers’ access to care, according to Axios. Ghost networks occur when an insurers’ list...
Independent pharmacies are putting pressure on elected officials and regulators to address the monopolistic practices of the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry which threatens the survival of small pharmacies...
Physicians have long blamed insurance companies – in particular, their prior-authorization policies – for rising health care denials. But an investigative report from ProPublica finds that insurance companies often...
Health insurance companies presented local governments with a program that claims to control costs associated with employees that seek out-of-network care, but in fact unexpected fees and charges unexpectedly...
Inequalities in America’s health care system still exist for many Black Americans, according to KFF Health News. The “Corridor of Shame” is a rural stretch of 17 poverty-stricken...
Researchers at the Urban Institute found a correlation between medical debt and hospital consolidation, KFF Health News reports. According to the Urban Institute’s study, medical debt becomes more prevalent...