Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company will begin manufacturing its own generic medications this week, starting with sterile injectables, founder and CEO Alex Oshmyansky, M.D., Ph.D., said Monday during a White House roundtable on lowering healthcare costs. The company, which launched just two years ago, will first manufacture commercial batches of epinephrine and norepinephrine for patients in the ...

Less than half of employers are confident in the integrity of health care services and fees charged by hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers, third-party administrators and even broker and consultants, says a new report.

The hospital operations giant has lost a bid to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit in North Carolina federal court, accusing it of scheming to restrict competition and artificially drive up costs for health plans.

Congressional leaders have struck a deal to avert a government shutdown this week, agreeing to punt a pair of funding deadlines later into March to buy more time for spending talks. Under the deal announced Wednesday, leaders have agreed to extend funding for six full bills covering the departments of Agriculture, Justice, Commerce, Energy, Interior, Transportation ...

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas cast doubt on the latest proposal to create a state-run single-payer healthcare system, saying he likes the idea but isn’t convinced the state can afford it in the face of a budget shortfall of at least $38 billion.

Californians have racked up billions of dollars in medical debt. Two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature granted authority to a new agency, the Office of Health Care Affordability, to rein in health costs that were racing ahead of residents’ ability to pay. But this effort is in danger of being watered down before it can benefit them.