Author: Scott Welch
President Donald Trump has been in office for 102 days. He has been quick to shake up U.S. foreign policy priorities and import tariffs, but his goals for commercial health coverage are still hazy. He has not yet shown whether he intends to eliminate the Affordable Care Act soon, focus at least temporarily on simply updating the ...
Getting a shingles vaccine may help with more than the viral infection that causes painful rashes — new research shows it can also lower the risk of heart disease. In a study, published Monday in the European Heart Journal, researchers found people given the shot had a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke, heart ...
Aetna will exit the individual markets in 2026, less than five years after making a return to this space.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is planning a May 7 meeting to finalize and advance its portion of the bill, leaving little time for members to iron out differences. The legislation calls for the committee to find $880 billion in savings over a decade, with most of it expected to come from health programs.
The National Community Pharmacists Association wants Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to help it fight the pharmacy benefit managers. The pharmacist group announced Friday that it had sent a letter encouraging DOGE to search for waste, fraud and abuse at PBMs. The PBMs contend that they fight to hold down prescription drug costs for employer health plan ...
Wegovy, the popular weight-loss drug from Novo Nordisk, will be available through several leading telehealth providers, beginning this week. The company’s announcement comes as many compounding pharmacies have been restricted from making unapproved, less-expensive versions of GLP-1 medications. “We felt it was really important to work hard to establish a collaboration with telehealth companies so that ...
The head of the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that the agency is now looking at whether it will still approve COVID-19 vaccines for next winter, citing a lack of data on booster shots.”We’re taking a look. I can’t comment on any particular application. As you know, we have a bunch of applications for those booster shots,” FDA Commissioner Dr. ...
While health plans are not likely to feel the most acute effects from the Trump administration's tariffs, they face downhill impacts from market volatility and rising costs, according to a new analysis from Fitch Ratings.
California uses Medicaid to pay for a range of nontraditional health care services, including housing. The Trump administration wants to scale back those programs.
Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as many people as New York and more than three times as many as Texas.