Month: October 2025
Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” alumnus who started Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs, told senators on Wednesday that he thinks price transparency is critical to helping employers bring down the cost of health benefits. But Cuban said his Dallas-based online discount pharmacy is using its deep knowledge of health care pricing and ...
A new report from the country’s two leading insurance industry organizations alleges providers are “flooding” the No Surprises Act dispute process to score higher payments. The report was released Friday by AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and estimates that as many as 39% of the out-of-network claims submitted to the independent dispute resolution, or ...
Extending the length of your daily walks can benefit your heart, new research suggests. In a study conducted among healthy adults, people who accumulated most of their daily steps in bouts of 15 minutes or longer had significantly lower risks of heart disease and death nearly a decade later than those who got in several ...
Hospitals argue that spending caps imposed by an affordability office will result in layoffs, cuts in health care services and reduced access to care for Californians.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a major state major medical insurance benefits bill into law this week. The Democrat also vetoed some health benefits bills, arguing that those bills would do too much to weaken health plan care utilization management efforts and increase plan costs. The new EHB package law could have a direct effect on ...
Janet McCaskill was on vacation in Arizona with her husband and best friend when she heard that President Donald Trump had suggested he might be able to bring the cost of popular weight-loss drugs down to $150 a month. “The thought of it going to $150 a month is dramatic,” said McCaskill, a grandmother from ...
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an agreement to sell common fertility drugs at steeply reduced prices on TrumpRx, a direct-to-consumer drug platform the White House plans to launch in January 2026. Under the plan, cost to patients for three in vitro fertilization (IVF) drugs made by EMD Serono, the US arm of German company ...
States are worried Congress missed its opportunity to extend enhanced ACA subsidies and lower premiums before consumers start picking plans in a few weeks.
A five-day strike that affected hundreds of Kaiser Permanente clinics and hospitals in California and Hawaii came to an end after the union representing workers said it had “new momentum” to head back to the bargaining table, but no apparent agreement has been reached. “This strike may be over — but the fight for patient ...
Health insurance prices for next year under the Affordable Care Act are now available in about a dozen states, giving Americans their first look at the sharp increases many will pay for coverage if Congress does not extend subsidies that have made some plans more affordable. The annual enrollment period for Obamacare is expected to ...