Industry Updates
This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.
Democrats say extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits is urgent. Republicans say there’s plenty of time to figure it out. As the government shutdown goes on, there are a lot of mixed messages on Capitol Hill about the health care issue at the center of the fight. The tax credits that make ACA health care ...
A handful of U.S. Senate Republicans are wrestling with the impending expiration of health insurance subsidies that are the primary sticking point in the government shutdown standoff that entered its 13th day on Monday. The lawmakers have not voted in favor of a proposal put forward by Senate Democrats to extend the subsidies. However, the ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Saturday that will revamp the laws governing pharmacy benefit managers operating in his state. The bill “represents the most aggressive effort in the country to lower prescription drug costs,” Newsom said in a bill signing statement. The new California PBM law appears to be broader than the PBM laws ...
AstraZeneca became the second drugmaker to enter a deal with the Trump administration to offer lower prices to Medicaid and to offer some of its drugs at a discount through TrumpRx, a government website to facilitate sales directly to consumers. “In other words the lowest price anywhere in the world, that’s what we get,” President Trump ...
Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers across multiple states are set for a five-day strike Oct. 14. Seven things to know: 1. The strike involves several member locals of the Alliance of Health Care Unions, a federation of 23 union locals representing 62,000 employees. A spokesperson for Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser told Becker’s that about 43,000 workers represented by ...
The government health program fights in Washington could hit small employers hard, because government programs provide health benefits for 19% of their workers. Medicaid covers 5% of all U.S. workers and 11% of workers at employers with fewer than 50 employees, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey results posted Thursday. Individual and family plans purchased through the ...
Vice President Vance said Sunday that subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fuel waste and fraud in the insurance industry, as Republicans refuse Democratic demands to extend the tax credits ahead of open enrollment next month. “The tax credits go to some people deservedly. And we think the tax credits actually go to a lot of waste ...
California, like much of the nation, is not producing enough nurses working at bedsides to meet the needs of an aging and diverse population, fueling a workforce crunch that risks endangering quality patient care. Nearly 60% of California counties, stretching between the borders with Mexico and Oregon, face a nursing shortage, according to state data. Democratic Gov. Gavin ...
Fortunetellers already know how U.S. benefits professionals will spend some of their time from now through mid-2027: They will keep searching the internet for the minimum numbers, maximum numbers and other numbers that shape how the tax breaks for health benefits and other benefits work in 2026. The Internal Revenue Service publishes several batches of ...
The federal government could cut the full retail price of some prescription drugs if it sets up a web-based drug outlet mall, but “TrumpRx.gov” could also create new problems for employers. Dae Lee and Natalie Oehlers, pharmacy benefits law experts at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, write about the possible dark side of TrumpRx in a new ...