Author: Scott Welch
More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada’s new public option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those preliminary numbers from the open enrollment period that ended in January are less than a third of what state officials had projected. Nevada ...
Several health agencies have asked a state board to formally reject the Trump administration’s guidance, which made more shots optional for schoolchildren.
GoodRx launched GoodRx Employer Direct, a program that allows employers to subsidize manufacturer-sponsored prices for high-cost brand medications like GLP-1s without adding them to their health insurance benefits.
Eli Lilly has officially launched Employer Connect, its direct-to-employer platform for its obesity medications, after teasing the rollout late last year. The drugmaker said in an announcement that the program is aimed at supporting employer choice and enabling them to build the solution that works best for them and their workforces. It will launch with more ...
President Trump’s drug discount initiative, TrumpRx, launched with high expectations, but the reality has not met the initial hype. Nearly a month after debuting, the platform offers limited availability of prescription drugs and lacks key usage data. Despite claims of lowest prices, many medications have more affordable generic options. TrumpRx Launch Overview TrumpRx was introduced ...
Hospital access to Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs and other alternative suppliers will be expanded through a new strategic partnership between Bluesight and GraphiteRx. This alliance, which brings marketplace data into CostCheck and ShortageCheck, will help hospitals reduce drug spend and strengthen resilience amid ongoing shortages, according to a Bluesight news release. Through the partnership, ...
Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases in which doctors would send patients to the ER, the chatbot said it was OK to delay care.
Despite the loss of federal subsidies that lowered costs for millions, California’s private health insurance marketplace held nearly steady this enrollment season. In all, 1.9 million Californians renewed their plan or selected one for the first time — a 2.7% drop compared to last year. A closer look, however, shows that Californians are making concessions ...
The Trump administration is proposing Obamacare plans that it says will lower health insurance premiums. But critics warn they would make care unaffordable.
Marketers are having a tougher time selling high-definition health plans together with health accounts, and they’re having a tougher time getting workers to focus on the health account offers. The percentage of U.S. adults with a combination of HDHP coverage and a health savings account or health reimbursement arrangement fell to 15% in 2025, according to new survey data ...