The National Community Pharmacists Association wants Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to help it fight the pharmacy benefit managers. The pharmacist group announced Friday that it had sent a letter encouraging DOGE to search for waste, fraud and abuse at PBMs. The PBMs contend that they fight to hold down prescription drug costs for employer health plan ...

Wegovy, the popular weight-loss drug from Novo Nordisk, will be available through several leading telehealth providers, beginning this week. The company’s announcement comes as many compounding pharmacies have been restricted from making unapproved, less-expensive versions of GLP-1 medications. “We felt it was really important to work hard to establish a collaboration with telehealth companies so that ...

The head of the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that the agency is now looking at whether it will still approve COVID-19 vaccines for next winter, citing a lack of data on booster shots.”We’re taking a look. I can’t comment on any particular application. As you know, we have a bunch of applications for those booster shots,” FDA Commissioner Dr. ...

While health plans are not likely to feel the most acute effects from the Trump administration's tariffs, they face downhill impacts from market volatility and rising costs, according to a new analysis from Fitch Ratings.

California uses Medicaid to pay for a range of nontraditional health care services, including housing. The Trump administration wants to scale back those programs.

Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as many people as New York and more than three times as many as Texas.