California voters have approved Proposition 34, a measure from an apartment trade group that aimed to restrict spending by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has bankrolled several rent control initiatives and criticized the measure as unconstitutional revenge. The Associated Press called the initiative Wednesday evening. According to the California Secretary of State, the measure is ahead 50.8% ...
The survey results suggest that employers should provide comprehensive offerings for increasingly diverse workforce health needs.
The country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers and group purchasing organizations are going on offense against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Express Scripts, Caremark and Optum Rx—owned by Cigna, CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group, respectively—are arguing in a new lawsuit the FTC’s recent actions and administrative process subvert the U.S. Constitution by reforming an industry by ...
Unauthorized switching of Affordable Care Act plans appears to have tapered off in recent weeks based on an almost one-third drop in casework associated with consumer complaints, say federal regulators. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which oversees the ACA, credits steps taken to thwart enrollment and switching problems that triggered more than 274,000 complaints ...
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slated to take the top spot at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under President-elect Donald Trump, some in the biopharma industry are concerned about his tenure’s possible impacts on companies’ direct-to-consumer outreach. RFK Jr. has previously expressed a desire to put a stop to DTC pharma ads in ...
The Chicago law firm Loftus & Eisenberg filed a class action suit in Houston federal court alleging a health services account company has been stealing funds from HSA participants. The lawsuit, Woodbright v. Health Matching Account Services Inc., alleges the company took tens of millions of dollars from consumers nationwide. The 71-page complaint, comparing the terms of ...