Month: September 2024
The Word & Brown Companies today was named in the annual Best Places to Work in Insurance program, which recognizes employers for their outstanding performance in establishing workplaces where employees can thrive, enjoy their work, and help their companies grow.
New federal regulatory guidance on the 2010 health care reform law eliminates uncertainties about how employers can pair a popular health care funding approach with one of the hottest benefits trends: having employees obtain coverage via private health insurance exchanges.
Mark Cuban, the founder of Cost Plus Drug Co., remains committed to disrupting the U.S. health care system to make it more affordable for consumers.
The summer surge of the coronavirus subvariants nicknamed FLiRT has given way to ever more contagious strains, a key reason behind the current high levels of COVID in California and nationwide. And doctors and scientists are keeping an eye on yet another subvariant — XEC — that could surpass the latest hyperinfectious subvariant, KP.3.1.1, now thought to be the most ...
People enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans had access to 40% of their local physicians in-network on average, according to a new analysis from KFF. Just 4% of people with marketplace coverage were enrolled in plans that included more than three-quarters of local doctors in-network, according to the study. By comparison, 23% of people were ...
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have a rare point of agreement in their otherwise bitter and divisive contest: It's up to the government to cut high U.S. drug prices.
For more than a decade, independent pharmacist Jay Patel has built a close and enduring relationship with his customers, who come to him for help in sickness and in health. But now there are interlopers: Drug middlemen, companies known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that influence which medicines can be bought, where to buy them ...
Employees at companies with less than 75 employees rated their happiness 47% higher than those with 76+ employees.
Agents are getting signs that the annual enrollment period for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D drug plans for 2025 will be as stormy as insurers and big brokers had predicted. Executives from CVS Health’s Aetna unit said during a conference call earlier this month that the company expected to let Medicare Advantage plan enrollment fall about 10% ...
Like to sleep in on the weekends? You’re probably doing your heart a world of good, a new study shows. Weekend “catch-up” sleep can lower a person’s risk of heart disease by up to 20%, according to findings to be presented Thursday at the European Society of Cardiology’s annual meeting in London. “Sufficient compensatory sleep is linked ...