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.
Private employers' expenditures are growing more than 70% faster than the national total, according to new government data.
Employers are bracing for healthcare costs to spike yet again in 2025, and that’s likely to push firms to pursue significant changes, experts said. The Business Group on Health’s annual look at trends to watch notes that healthcare costs are set to increase next year by the largest margin in a decade. And a survey released in ...
Ann Lewandowski knows all about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the companies that shape the U.S. drug market. Her job, as a policy advocate at drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, was to tell patient and physician groups about the PBMs’ role in high drug prices. Armed with that knowledge, Lewandowski filed a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit in ...
On the face of it, it may seem like the buzz around health equity is dying down. Less than a quarter of payer and health system executives cited health equity as a priority for 2025, a recent Deloitte survey found. But the facts haven’t changed. The U.S. healthcare system continues to have an abysmal record on most equity, access ...
Several major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi, are set to raise prices on more than 250 branded medications in the U.S. starting Jan. 1, 2025, according to a Reuter’s exclusive report. Data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors showed the price increases will affect a range of drugs, including Pfizer’s COVID-19 ...
As 2024 winds down, I continue to hear about companies rethinking employee health and wellness programs and what makes the biggest impact for their employees. To keep employees healthy, happy, and productive, companies are realizing they need to go well beyond the basics. Today’s corporate fitness programs are more innovative, inclusive, and focused on overall ...
The three giants charge less than the guppies but report higher, more consistent profits, according to a new Health Affairs study.
Members of the Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to approve two House bills that could make Affordable Care Act health coverage reporting requirements a little easier for employers to meet.
Luigi Mangione was indicted on charges that include first-degree murder in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. The indictment on murder in the first-degree in furtherance of terrorism elevates the case against Mangione, 26, in Thompson’s killing outside a Manhattan hotel on Dec. 4. The ...
Earlier versions of the bill included provisions that would have limited an employer to including only $10,200 in spending on employee-only coverage and $27,500 in spending for family coverage coverage from taxable income.