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.
While Generation Z and millennial workers still account for fewer claims than their baby boomer counterparts, claims in these populations are rising fast, according to a new report. UnitedHealthcare and the Health Action Council (HAC) earlier this month released their annual white paper digging into key trends impacting the employer market and found that the number of ...
Trump Required Hospitals To Post Their Prices for Patients. Mostly It’s the Industry Using the Data.
Republicans think patients should be shopping for better health care prices. The party has long pushed to give patients money and let consumers do the work of reducing costs. After some GOP lawmakers closed out 2025 advocating to fund health savings accounts, President Donald Trump introduced his Great Healthcare Plan, which calls for, among other ...
More Americans than expected enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for this year, after premium subsidies were dramatically cut — but it remains to be seen whether they’ll keep the coverage as their costs mount. It’s all part of a drama that roiled the ACA’s 2026 open enrollment period. Congressional debate over whether ...
The states, all led by Democrats, used the grants to support a wide variety of functions, including H.I.V. prevention and surveillance.
President Donald Trump’s unconventional plan to lower prescription drug prices is being met with a skeptical eye from Republicans as Congress places a greater focus on drug pricing ahead of the midterm elections. Trump’s plan is to establish “most favored nation” pricing to bring U.S. prescription drug pricing more in line with what other countries pay, part of ...
After years of conversation, legislators pushed key reforms to pharmacy benefit managers over the finish line, much to the chagrin of the industry. Under the bipartisan health funding deal, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, PBMs will be required to pass through all drug rebates, fees and other funds to ...
Following last week’s launch of TrumpRx, a federal government-based prescription drug platform, doctors are speaking about its potential benefits for consumers — and also its limitations. The platform, which can be accessed at TrumpRx.gov, allows patients to access “large discounts on many of the most popular and highest-priced medicines in the country,” according to the statement on ...
House Judiciary Committee Republicans have subpoenaed eight Affordable Care Act health insurers for documents as part of a widening investigation of potential fraud surrounding the use of premium subsidies in the individual market, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Enhanced premium tax credits for ACA coverage expired on Jan. 1. But Republicans are pressing forward with their probe ...
Kaiser Permanente and its subsidiaries wrapped 2025 with a 10.3% bump in operating revenues and more than $9.3 billion of total gains. The integrated care organization said its health plan, hospitals, Risant Health subsidiary and other business under its umbrella combined for $127.7 billion in revenues. The prior year’s $115.8 billion—a particularly large year-to-year jump ...
More than 3,000 pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and clinical laboratory professionals joined the strike, which entered its third week on Monday.