The IRS issued its highly anticipated final regulations for required minimum distributions on July 19, 2024. These regulations incorporate rules from both the Secure and Secure 2.0 acts.

President Biden — who was propelled into office in no small part by his health care agenda — realized Democrats' decades-long dream of allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, and came closer to achieving his party's equally elusive goal of universal health coverage than any other Democratic president before him.

Expensive specialty drugs and ordinary severe claims are pushing the cost of protecting a self-funded employer health plan against catastrophic risk higher.

The government is giving away money! So say ads on a variety of social media platforms. Consumers, the ads claim, can qualify for $1,400 or even $6,400 a month to use on groceries, rent, medical expenses, and other bills. Some mention no-cost health insurance coverage. But that’s not the whole story. And here’s the spoiler — no one ...

Pharmacist Mark Mikhael has lost 50 pounds over the past 12 months. He no longer has diabetes and finds himself “at my ideal body weight,” with his cholesterol below 200 for the first time in 20 years. “I feel fantastic,” he said. Like millions of others, Mikhael credits the new class of weight loss drugs. ...

Pharmacy-benefit managers (PBMs) are steering patients toward more expensive drugs and limiting where they can get them, according to a new report from the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The report, viewed by the Wall Street Journal, followed a 32-month investigation by the committee ahead of a hearing on PBMs involving executives from the nation’s largest ...