Late last month, the Trump administration announced that it had cut 760,000 people from the Affordable Care Act rolls, claiming fraud and improper enrollments and touting billions in potential taxpayer savings. Not all of those kicked off were fraudulently enrolled, KFF Health News has learned. Insurance industry sources said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
Epic is partnering with Amazon Pharmacy, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs, Costco and Eli Lilly’s LillyDirect to develop a tool that lets clinicians and patients compare prescription drug prices. Through the prescription marketplace, slated to launch next summer, clinicians and patients at health systems using Epic will compare medication costs at different pharmacies—patients’ insurance prices ...
Last week, the Trump administration revamped regulations intended to increase health care transparency. “Greater transparency drives competition, reduces price disparities and helps lower health care costs, a key priority for the Trump administration,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in a statement. At the heart of this rule ...
UnitedHealth Group executives say conditions for commercial health insurance are still challenging. Tim Noel, the chief executive officer of the company’s UnitedHealthcare health insurance unit, told securities analysts Tuesday that UnitedHealthcare went into 2026 thinking that the underlying cost of care might be 11% higher this year than in 2025. “As we previously noted, trends ...
Nearly half of Americans spend less than two hours outdoors in an entire week, according to a new national survey from the Nature & Health Alliance involving researchers at Texas A&M University. Dr. John La Puma, a California physician and expert in nature-based medicine, has focused on the potential health impacts of spending less time ...
The US government has delayed by 90 days implementation of new customs requirements for small international mail shipments, a move that should forestall higher prices for imported prescription drugs and other products for inflation-weary Americans until after the November midterm elections. The US Customs and Border Protection rule targets the de minimis tariffs exemption, which ...