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.
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. ...
The average employer-sponsored health insurance premium for US families rose 7% this year – same as last year, according to the annual KFF survey of 2,100 companies.
Walgreens reported a loss of $3 billion in the fourth quarter and plans to close 1,200 stores over the next three years as part of the retail drugstore chain’s ongoing turnaround strategy amid a rocky fiscal 2024. The company will close 500 stores next year as it works to improve its cash flow. The closure ...
The U.S. Supreme Court plans to look at states’ ability to regulate pharmacy benefit managers this term. Glen Mulready, Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner, is trying to overturn an appeals court ruling that found that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 benefits rule uniformity provisions preempts state efforts to regulate PBMs when the PBMs are serving ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a list of prescription drugs it hopes to include in its new Medicare $2 Drug List Model, the agency announced Wednesday. Designed to limit out-of-pocket costs, the plan caps a generic drug’s monthly price at $2. Drugs included in the list help tackle conditions like high ...
Amazon will more than double to 20 the number of cities where its customers can get same day delivery of their prescriptions by opening new pharmacies in these markets. The online retailer’s Amazon Pharmacy business said it will leverage its “vast logistics network and advanced automation technology to solve one of pharmacy’s biggest pain points: ...
About 165 million Americans get their health insurance through work, and yet most don’t spend much time considering what their employer is offering in the way of benefits and what it will cost. In fact, employees only spent about 45 minutes a year, on average, deciding which benefit options suit them best, a report from Aon found. Open enrollment ...
It’s that time of year again: In most states, the Affordable Care Act’s annual open enrollment season for health plans begins Nov. 1 and lasts through Jan. 15. Current enrollees who do not update their information or select an alternative will be automatically reenrolled in their current plan or, if that plan is no longer available, ...