CVS Health plans to split into two companies — one housing its insurance arm Aetna and pharmacy benefit manager Caremark, and one with its 9,000 retail pharmacies — in one of the largest corporate breakups in history. The split, rumored in media reports Tuesday and confirmed by executives Wednesday, comes a decade after the $78 billion merger ...

Tuesday’s forecast-busting blue wave puts wind in the sails of Democrats who have promised a stark departure from Trump-era healthcare policy—though whether or not the shifts will be incremental or seismic hinges on intra-party debates and the president’s veto. As of noon Wednesday, Democrats had flipped seven seats in the Senate and 21 in the ...

Democrats in Congress may now try to make a health finance policy deal with President Donald Trump. Levitt, a health policy analyst at KFF, talked about the new round of health finance dealmaking today, during a KFF discussion on the results of the Nov. 3 elections. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is set to ...

As small and mid-sized businesses grapple with the high cost of health care, they are finding that there are no simple solutions. Nearly three-quarters of CEOs expect costs to climb at least 6%, and more than 10% expect an increase of more than 15%. “As health care costs rise, CEOs must rethink their benefits strategies ...

Sutter Health and Stanford Medicine on Monday unveiled a new, five-story cancer center in Oakland that they hope will be a regional “one-stop shop” for outpatient oncology care in the East Bay. The center aims to accommodate the projected growth in cancer patients, which Stanford estimates will double in the next decade. Many patients must ...

Falling asleep earlier was linked to greater weight loss in adults with prediabetes, according to new research. An analysis of data from a randomized trial led by the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing found that each hour earlier participants fell asleep was associated with roughly 1. 3 pounds of weight loss over eight weeks, ...