Drug companies often increase prices at the start of the new year, and 2024 seems to be no exception. There have been about 600 price hikes so far in January, according to the drug price nonprofit 46Brooklyn Research. But the increases haven’t been as steep as they were in some previous years. In the 2010s, drug ...

Rule would require Medicare Advantage organizations, Medicaid and other government-sponsored health programs to include specific reasons for denying requests

This year promises to be a Super Bowl of telehealth, according to plans by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). The year 2024 has at least two major factors that could be hugely influential for telehealth, according to the organization and its affiliated ATA Action advocacy nonprofit. It’s a presidential election year, and it will bring the ...

Wages have not been able to offset the rising costs of premiums for workers with employer-sponsored coverage over the last three decades, with Black and Hispanic employees hit particularly hard by this development, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. One possible remedy would be for companies to base premiums on how much individuals get paid; with those ...

We’ve closed the books on another hectic J. P Morgan Healthcare Conference where investors, executives, startup founders and reporters all battle rain, hail, and in this year’s case, flight disruptions to be at one of the top industry events. The conference included presentations from industry incumbents like Mayo Clinic, Walgreens, CVS and Cigna as well as smaller ...

Key indicators for respiratory illness declined for the first time in weeks after the holidays, signaling that the tripledemic of flu, COVID-19 and RSV may have peaked nationwide.