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.
Walmart plans to expand its home delivery of pharmacy items and offer them alongside the other merchandise in its online store, spreading to virtually all U.S. states in the next few months, the retailer announced. The new policy applies to same-day delivery of prescription medications and has already been rolled out to six states: Arkansas, ...
Technology is constantly evolving, and one of the industries where it’s having the greatest impact is insurance. If you’re a health insurance agent or broker, you need to keep up on how tech can impact you, your clients, underwriting new business, transparency, health monitoring, and policy personalization. Below is a look at five of the ...
Federal regulators are confronting a new twist in drug development: manufacturers that include software with the medicine to prod patients to take pills as directed, manage side effects or track how well a treatment works. Why it matters: The apps could boost the drugs’ clinical value and provide a more personalized approach to managing chronic conditions ...
The upcoming election results will have a significant impact on health care and employee benefit policies for at least the next four years.
Cigna Group has reinitiated discussions with Humana regarding a potential merger, following the collapse of their discussions last year. According to a Bloomberg News report, which cited sources privy to the development, the talks are in the preliminary stages and no decisions have been made. In December last year, Cigna abandoned its plans to merge with Humana ...
Blue Shield of California and Salesforce are teaming up to simplify and streamline the prior authorization experience. The partners announced at HLTH on Monday that they would leverage Salesforce’s Health Cloud to make the process feel as simple as paying with a credit card. When a clinician needs to submit a prior auth request, the ...
Nearly 75% of workers surveyed do not believe they have enough information to make a confident decision in open enrollment.
As CVS Health’s (CVS.N), opens new tab new CEO David Joyner steps into the top job after Karen Lynch’s quick departure on Friday, Wall Street analysts and some investors are questioning whether he has the right experience to turn around the Aetna health insurance business as it struggles with high medical costs. Joyner, who headed the company’s ...
The average American spent only 30-60 minutes making open enrollment decisions last year.
Novartis (NOVN.S), opens new tab has lost a bid to keep a generic version of its top-selling heart failure drug Entresto off the U.S. market by blocking regulators from approving it, though the generic’s launch faces other legal roadblocks. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington, D.C., in an order made public on Tuesday, said the U.S. ...