UnitedHealthcare has unveiled a new generative AI companion called Avery that learns from member interactions. Avery goes beyond being a general AI chatbot as it’s an agentic, HIPAA-compliant tool integrated into health insurance workflows. It can provide a self-serve personalized experience based on the individual’s specific benefits, UnitedHealthcare said. Avery is live for approximately 6.5 million ...
For more than a year, the biopharma industry has had to swiftly react to various tariff threats from the Trump administration. Now, a Thursday announcement from the White House puts the U.S. tariff situation into much clearer focus. The president has rolled out a 100% tariff rate on patented pharmaceutical products and ingredients under Section 232 of ...
A new Gallup poll shows healthcare has returned as the leading domestic concern among Americans, with 61% reporting they worry “a great deal” about access and affordability. The finding places healthcare ahead of 15 other policy areas and marks a shift from recent years when economic issues dominated. Following healthcare, four economic concerns rank closely together, each ...
Two more drug-making giants will officially start selling popular commercial medications on the White House’s discounted pharmaceutical site as soon as Monday, CBS News exclusively learned. American pharmaceutical companies Abbvie and Genentech become the 10th and 11th companies to provide their prescriptions at a reduced rate on the “TrumpRx” site. Abbvie, which struck a deal ...
The Trump administration’s bid to rewrite how catastrophic plans are structured under the Affordable Care Act is raising legal and actuarial questions, even as some policy professionals applaud the creativity aimed at solving rising premiums. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a proposed rule earlier this year that would allow catastrophic plans to design terms ...
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association submitted a wide-ranging letter to CMS on March 30 in response to the agency’s information request on its Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare, or CRUSH, initiative. Seven BCBSA recommendations: 1. CMS should notify Medicare Advantage plans in real time when it suspends payments to a provider over suspected ...