Self-insured employers are set to face plenty of challenges this year, ranging from addressing the mental health needs of their workforces to developing strategies for on-site clinics amid a pivot to larger volumes of remote work.

Inflation and the economy are the top concern of voters heading into the 2024 presidential election cycle, but health care remains among the top worrisome issues nationally.

Both chambers of Congress voted Thursday to pass a bill Thursday that punts a partial government shutdown, set to go into effect this weekend, back to early March. The Senate voted 77-18 in favor of the stopgap Thursday afternoon, and was shortly followed by 314-108 vote in the House. President Joe Biden had previously signaled that ...

Drugmakers aren’t raising prices like they used to, according to data from 46brooklyn Research. On Jan. 1, 453 branded drugs increased in cost — a similar figure to the start of 2023, which saw 452 pricier brand-name drugs. Drugmakers typically make the most drug price changes in January, and in 2023 and 2024, there seems to be ...

Drugmakers kicked off 2024 by raising the list prices for Ozempic, Mounjaro and dozens of other widely used medicines. Companies including Novo Nordisk NOVO.B -0.76%decrease; red down pointing triangle, the maker of Ozempic, and Eli Lilly LLY -0.87%decrease; red down pointing triangle, which sells Mounjaro, raised list prices on 775 brand-name drugs during the first ...

Instead of relying on a test of your infectiousness from Covid-19 and symptoms to determine the need to isolate, California now is ignoring the test results. California’s Department of Health recently made major changes to its isolation requirements, one based on symptoms alone. On January 9, Tomás J. Aragón, M.D., Dr.P.H., director of the CDPH, ...