The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and four state Attorneys General want to stop UnitedHealth Group from acquiring the home health company Amedisys, according to The New York Times. ...
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are under scrutiny for inflating prescription-drug prices, steering patients toward costlier options and threatening the survival of independent pharmacies, according to Fox 8 Live. PBMs...
Many hospitals and medical providers are now requiring soon-to-be mothers to pay in advance before giving birth, according to KFF Health News. Kathleen Clark and her husband were told...
Around Kansas City, Kansas and across the country, independent pharmacies are shutting their doors due to the anticompetitive practices exerted by the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry, according to...
A Kansas family is fighting their insurance company’s denial of a life-saving drug. According to KWCH, their struggle is a microcosm of a larger issue: how prior authorization inhibits...
Vermont has one of the lowest uninsured rates in the U.S., yet consumers pay some of the highest health-insurance costs in the country and face barriers to receiving the...
Catholic hospitals, like many nonprofit hospitals, are becoming more like big businesses, spending little on charity care while patients struggle to pay for medical care, according to KFF Health...
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...