In July, the top executives of the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) – CVS Caremark, UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx, and Cigna’s express scripts – testified before the House...
Despite laws that require insurers to cover care and treatment for mental health just as they would for any other condition, more than 500 therapists interviewed by ProPublica report...
Steward Health, a hospital system once backed by private equity, filed for bankruptcy this year and has begun closing hospitals and laying off thousands of employees in multiple states....
A new KFF analysis shows that those enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans have in-network access to just 40% of the doctors near their homes, Axios reports. Though...
Vice President Kamala Harris is proposing an aggressive plan to wipe away medical debt for millions of Americans, according to CNBC. Americans together owe more than $220 billion medical...
The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (Cost Plus), founded by billionaire investor Mark Cuban, is looking to disrupt the health care industry, particularly focused on pharmacy benefit managers’...
This year’s Medicaid redeterminations put health coverage at risk for millions of Americans. But as KFF Health News reports, some states chose to mitigate this risk by expanding Medicaid,...
More than 12,000 consumers have accused insurers and providers of not complying with the No Surprises Act, according to data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),...
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon decide on the merits of a 50-year-old federal law which stands in the way of allowing states to regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)...
Lawmakers in two states – California and Massachusetts – want to slow private equity’s expansion into health care, The Wall Street Journal reports. Often, when private equity firms acquire...