Month: June 2019
Supporters of “Medicare for All” notched a victory Wednesday when one of Congress’s most powerful committees debated the progressive proposal, but the venue also gave Republicans an opportunity to paint proponents as socialists.
It’s time to rein in pharmacy benefit managers, according to the American Medical Association, which adopted a policy at its annual meeting Monday calling for patient protections on the lightly regulated industry.
Pharmacy and retail giant Walgreens has been aggressively working to establish itself as a force in the growing market for digital healthcare and web-driven patient care as it looks to outmaneuver rivals like CVS Health and Amazon.
Democrats in the state Legislature on Sunday agreed to make adults between the ages of 19 and 25 eligible for the state’s Medicaid program. Not everyone will get those benefits, only people whose incomes are low enough to qualify for the program. State officials estimate the program will cover an additional 90,000 people at a cost of $98 million.
The Senate Health Committee is planning a hearing next week on a wide-ranging bipartisan package to lower health care costs, followed by a markup the week after.
Complacency will make fixing the nation’s health-care system a daunting task, according to Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway recently joined with J.P. Morgan Chase and Amazon to develop a new model for their 1 million employees.
More than 150,000 California children dropped out of federally funded health insurance programs in 2018, a trend some experts blame on the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies and efforts to upend the Affordable Care Act.
At least a quarter of a million Medicare beneficiaries may receive bills for as many as five months of premiums they thought they already paid. But they shouldn’t toss the letter in the garbage. It’s not a scam or a mistake.
After piloting its HealthHUB format in a collection of its Houston stores, CVS Health announced during its investor day Tuesday that it's planning for 1,500 retail locations to follow suit in the next two years.
Late November Judge Richard Leon rose to the bench in his Washington, D.C., courtroom for what was expected to be a routine hearing as the Justice Department sought final approval of a settlement clearing CVS Health Corp.’s acquisition of Aetna Inc.