Author: Scott Welch
California voters have approved Proposition 34, a measure from an apartment trade group that aimed to restrict spending by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has bankrolled several rent control initiatives and criticized the measure as unconstitutional revenge. The Associated Press called the initiative Wednesday evening. According to the California Secretary of State, the measure is ahead 50.8% ...
The survey results suggest that employers should provide comprehensive offerings for increasingly diverse workforce health needs.
The country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers and group purchasing organizations are going on offense against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Express Scripts, Caremark and Optum Rx—owned by Cigna, CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group, respectively—are arguing in a new lawsuit the FTC’s recent actions and administrative process subvert the U.S. Constitution by reforming an industry by ...
Unauthorized switching of Affordable Care Act plans appears to have tapered off in recent weeks based on an almost one-third drop in casework associated with consumer complaints, say federal regulators. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which oversees the ACA, credits steps taken to thwart enrollment and switching problems that triggered more than 274,000 complaints ...
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slated to take the top spot at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under President-elect Donald Trump, some in the biopharma industry are concerned about his tenure’s possible impacts on companies’ direct-to-consumer outreach. RFK Jr. has previously expressed a desire to put a stop to DTC pharma ads in ...
The Chicago law firm Loftus & Eisenberg filed a class action suit in Houston federal court alleging a health services account company has been stealing funds from HSA participants. The lawsuit, Woodbright v. Health Matching Account Services Inc., alleges the company took tens of millions of dollars from consumers nationwide. The 71-page complaint, comparing the terms of ...
One key to healthy aging is to keep our minds sharp. And some of the best strategies to fend off dementia, stroke and even late-life depression come down to our daily habits. “You can substantially reduce your risk through the lifestyle choices you make,” says Dr. Jonathan Rosand, a neurologist and co-founder of the McCance Center ...
The coalition is trying to ward off any efforts to weaken the current federal income tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health benefits. They oppose moves to cap the exclusion to increase federal tax revenue and help narrow the federal budget deficit or offset the cost of other federal tax cuts or federal program funding increases.
States are racing to have their Medicaid requests approved before the Trump administration takes power. The new administration is expected to have a very different view of Medicaid than the Biden administration, and GOP lawmakers in Congress are eyeing major changes.
President-elect Donald Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The position requires confirmation by the Senate. He touted the appointment as one of the most important in his Cabinet.