Month: March 2025
Last week, Nevada state lawmakers heard worst case scenarios if Congress significantly reduces federal Medicaid spending. There’s a lot of uncertainty as state lawmakers are required to pass the biennial budget over the next 100 days. One in four Nevadans is insured by Medicaid, the health care insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans. In Nevada, ...
As President Donald Trump wrapped up his first term in 2020, he signed legislation to protect Americans from surprise medical bills. “This must end,” Trump said. “We’re going to hold insurance companies and hospitals totally accountable.” But the president’s wide-ranging push to slash government spending, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is weakening the federal office ...
More than 8 in 10 employers intend to offer employees and their dependents access to lower- or no-cost mental health support through their tele-mental health provider this year, the letter said.
As biopharma players continue to parse out what the second Trump administration means for the industry, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Ph.D., outlined one potential response by his company if pharmaceutical tariffs come into play. Pfizer’s local manufacturing setup is already well positioned in the U.S., and the New York-based drugmaker could bring additional resources into ...
Just a few weeks after summarily firing hundreds of employees, the Trump administration is now notifying some staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they’re back on the job. On Tuesday, an unknown number of CDC staff began receiving emails stating that their letters of termination were being rescinded, according to emails reviewed ...
The budget bill that was passed in the House last week calls for $2 trillion in federal spending cuts to be identified over the next decade, with $880 billion of that coming from the Energy and Commerce Committee's jurisdiction, which includes the Medicaid program.
Prescription drug manufacturers raised prices on nearly 600 drugs in January, according to an analysis by 46brooklyn Research. Among those medications impacted by the increases are drugs used to treat diabetes, HIV, COVID-19, and cancer, as well as other conditions.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to reinforce rules, put into place during his first term, that push hospitals and payers to make healthcare prices more transparent for patients. The order directs the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to rapidly implement and enforce the Trump healthcare price transparency ...
The House is renewing a push to take on pharmacy benefit managers that play an important role in the cost of prescription drugs that has been heavily scrutinized by lawmakers amid industry consolidation and rising prices. A subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing on Wednesday focused on possible legislative solutions ...
According to reporting by The Mercury News, one of California’s leading daily newspapers, about one-fourth of all health insurance claims in the Golden State were denied last year. Some may have been denied due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, new legislation prohibits health insurers from relying solely on AI to deny a claim based on medical necessity. ...