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.
Teladoc Health reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter financial results with both revenue and earnings exceeding analysts’ expectations, driving a 15% jump in the company’s stock Thursday. But the telehealth giant continues to face headwinds as it works to shift from subscription to visit-based revenue models. Teladoc also is transitioning its virtual mental health business, BetterHelp, to accept ...
Ascendiun today announced the national launch of Worthy, a movement to rebuild the U.S. healthcare system so that it is affordable, transparent and truly worthy of every person it serves. The announcement follows a standing-room only launch event held earlier today in New York City, where Ascendiun president and CEO Paul Markovich was joined by ...
An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers will return to work on Tuesday after a four-week strike in California and Hawaii to demand better wages and staffing. The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals said in a statement Monday that “significant movement at the bargaining table” prompted an ...
What Does Today’s Supreme Court Decision Striking Down Tariffs Mean For The Pharmaceutical Industry?
The Trump administration has other legal avenues to impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals despite today’s Supreme Court decision striking down many of the administration’s current tariffs. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that President Donald Trump did not have the authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. But ...
Year two of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure as health secretary is already yielding some wins — but not for him and his Make America Healthy Again movement. Instead, the agriculture and pharmaceutical industries he’s long targeted are breathing a sigh of relief as the White House signals it’s reining in Kennedy’s attacks on their ...
Tamar Abrams had a lousy couple of years in 2022 and ’23. Both her parents died; a relationship ended; she retired from communications consulting. She moved from Arlington, Virginia, to Warren, Rhode Island, where she knew all of two people. “I was kind of a mess,” recalled Abrams, 69. Trying to cope, “I was eating ...
Subsidies. Love ’em or hate them, they dominated the news during the Affordable Care Act’s sign-up season, and their reduction is now hitting many enrollees in the pocketbook. While lawmakers continue to disagree on a way forward, and the politics of affordability keeps the issue front and center, it would be understandable to think these are the ...
The new government-run prescription drug portal, TrumpRx, is now live. It launched early this month after a delay from its original planned kick-off in January. The site features 40 of the most popular – and expensive – branded medications from pharmaceutical companies that have worked out discounted pricing agreements with the White House. Those firms include ...
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 is ...
A state lawmaker described the findings as “alarming” and a “disturbing realization” of how mental health care can be treated as second-tier to physical care.