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.
This year kicked off with a new administration heralding big policy changes in areas that affect employee health & welfare benefits. This year’s Roundup is packed with the latest legislative and regulatory developments that matter most to health benefit plan sponsors and service providers. From significant consumer-directed health legislative changes in telehealth and health savings ...
The fierce fight over health care costs hits a crucial juncture this week, with a series of major developments that could make or break the future of enhanced ObamaCare subsidies. For months, GOP leaders have been squeezed between centrist Republicans clamoring to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits, which expire at year’s end, and ...
Two key Senate Republican chairmen are circulating the outline of a health care plan to Republican offices ahead of a crucial week that could decide the fate of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, multiple sources tell Axios. Why it matters: The plan from Finance Committee chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and health committee chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) does ...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) announced last Thursday that Democrats will force Republican senators to vote this week on a three-year extension of enhanced health insurance premium subsidies that are due to expire in January.
As Congress continues to debate next steps on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) enhanced subsidies, insurers are urging legislators to consider an extension with additional program integrity measures in place. AHIP said in a statement Wednesday that “common sense” steps to promote integrity can help mitigate the risks related to fraudulent enrollment in ACA plans or subsidies. ...
The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Finance Committee have teamed up to bring back a major pharmacy benefit manager regulation bill. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, the committee chairman, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the highest-ranking Democrat on the committee, joined to introduce the “PBM Price Transparency and Accountability Act” bill. The highly popular ...
The number of Americans signing up for Affordable Care Act health insurance for 2026 is moderately higher than it was at a similar time last year, initial new federal data shows, even as subsidies set to expire at the end of 2025 will make the coverage more expensive for many. Seen at face value, the data from the Center for Medicare ...
David Garza sometimes feels as if he doesn’t have health insurance now that he pays so much to treat his Type 2 diabetes. His monthly premium payment of $435 for family coverage is roughly the same as the insurance at his previous job. But the policy at his current job carries an annual deductible of ...
Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs and Humana are exploring a potential partnership to help lower the cost of prescription drugs for employers. Cuban, an entrepreneur, businessman and TV personality who co-founded Cost Plus Drugs, said the company is in discussions with Humana to work with its CenterWell healthcare services business to provide a better pharmacy ...
Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to the immunization practice. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose members were chosen by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ...