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.
More than 8 in 10 employers intend to offer employees and their dependents access to lower- or no-cost mental health support through their tele-mental health provider this year, the letter said.
As biopharma players continue to parse out what the second Trump administration means for the industry, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Ph.D., outlined one potential response by his company if pharmaceutical tariffs come into play. Pfizer’s local manufacturing setup is already well positioned in the U.S., and the New York-based drugmaker could bring additional resources into ...
Just a few weeks after summarily firing hundreds of employees, the Trump administration is now notifying some staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they’re back on the job. On Tuesday, an unknown number of CDC staff began receiving emails stating that their letters of termination were being rescinded, according to emails reviewed ...
The budget bill that was passed in the House last week calls for $2 trillion in federal spending cuts to be identified over the next decade, with $880 billion of that coming from the Energy and Commerce Committee's jurisdiction, which includes the Medicaid program.
Prescription drug manufacturers raised prices on nearly 600 drugs in January, according to an analysis by 46brooklyn Research. Among those medications impacted by the increases are drugs used to treat diabetes, HIV, COVID-19, and cancer, as well as other conditions.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to reinforce rules, put into place during his first term, that push hospitals and payers to make healthcare prices more transparent for patients. The order directs the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to rapidly implement and enforce the Trump healthcare price transparency ...
The House is renewing a push to take on pharmacy benefit managers that play an important role in the cost of prescription drugs that has been heavily scrutinized by lawmakers amid industry consolidation and rising prices. A subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing on Wednesday focused on possible legislative solutions ...
Last week, President Trump threatened tariffs on pharmaceuticals if manufacturers don’t relocate operations to the U.S. On Wednesday, the CEO of Eli Lilly stood with Trump’s commerce secretary in Washington, D.C., to announce a $27 billion plan to build four manufacturing “mega-sites” in the U.S. Why it matters: The commitment illustrates the dance much of Big Pharma is ...
Members of the U.S. House are rushing to update the federal law that governs preventive benefits coverage for people with health savings accounts. House leaders have put a bipartisan HSA preventive benefits bill, the Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act bill, on a list of items that could come to the House floor this week “under ...
As a measles outbreak in Texas has grown to nearly 150 cases, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an opinion piece on Fox News on Sunday that parents should consult with health-care providers “to understand their options to get the MMR vaccine” for their children. Kennedy did not explicitly recommend the ...