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.
After she was diagnosed at age 48 with Type 1 diabetes, Stacey Silverman muddled through her days with high blood sugar, fatigue and splitting headaches. Taking a long-acting form of insulin called Levemir, one of many types of the hormone on the market, resolved those blood sugar swings. Now the 55-year-old Dallas-area resident worries her ...
Self-insured employers are set to face plenty of challenges this year, ranging from addressing the mental health needs of their workforces to developing strategies for on-site clinics amid a pivot to larger volumes of remote work.
Inflation and the economy are the top concern of voters heading into the 2024 presidential election cycle, but health care remains among the top worrisome issues nationally.
Both chambers of Congress voted Thursday to pass a bill Thursday that punts a partial government shutdown, set to go into effect this weekend, back to early March. The Senate voted 77-18 in favor of the stopgap Thursday afternoon, and was shortly followed by 314-108 vote in the House. President Joe Biden had previously signaled that ...
Drugmakers aren’t raising prices like they used to, according to data from 46brooklyn Research. On Jan. 1, 453 branded drugs increased in cost — a similar figure to the start of 2023, which saw 452 pricier brand-name drugs. Drugmakers typically make the most drug price changes in January, and in 2023 and 2024, there seems to be ...
Drugmakers kicked off 2024 by raising the list prices for Ozempic, Mounjaro and dozens of other widely used medicines. Companies including Novo Nordisk NOVO.B -0.76%decrease; red down pointing triangle, the maker of Ozempic, and Eli Lilly LLY -0.87%decrease; red down pointing triangle, which sells Mounjaro, raised list prices on 775 brand-name drugs during the first ...
Unlike emergency savings accounts that employers have rolled out over the past few years, these new SECURE 2.0 pension-linked accounts have auto-enrollment but employees must be given the chance to opt out.
Every year, thousands of bankers, venture capitalists, private equity investors, and other moneybags flock to San Francisco’s Union Square to pursue deals. Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops, and the patent-stealers at bay, while the dealmakers pack into the cramped Westin St. Francis hotel and its surrounds to meet with cash-hungry executives ...
Drug companies often increase prices at the start of the new year, and 2024 seems to be no exception. There have been about 600 price hikes so far in January, according to the drug price nonprofit 46Brooklyn Research. But the increases haven’t been as steep as they were in some previous years. In the 2010s, drug ...
This year promises to be a Super Bowl of telehealth, according to plans by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). The year 2024 has at least two major factors that could be hugely influential for telehealth, according to the organization and its affiliated ATA Action advocacy nonprofit. It’s a presidential election year, and it will bring the ...