Nearly 100 million U.S. workers will be required to get the COVID vaccine by Jan. 4, with some workers allowed to test weekly instead, under sweeping federal rules released Thursday by the Biden administration that identifies COVID-19 as an occupational hazard. The regulations are aimed at health care workers and businesses with 100 or more ...
A federal judge found drug companies cannot unilaterally restrict sales of products discounted under the 340B program to contract pharmacies. But a separate ruling found that manufacturers don’t have to provide discounts. The opinions, released late Friday, are the latest in a legal fight between six drugmakers and the Biden administration over whether they must ...
UnitedHealth Group has topped the industry in profitability for the third straight quarter, according to company earnings reports. The healthcare giant reported $4.1 billion in profit in the third quarter, an increase of nearly $1 billion year over year. That’s leagues ahead of its main national insurer competitors, which were all largely on par with one ...
A $1.75 trillion social and climate spending framework Democrats unveiled Thursday would reform the health-care market in several ways, expanding access and reducing costs for millions of Americans.
Open enrollment for the nation’s largest state-run health insurance marketplace began Monday and runs through the end of January. Covered California sells individual health insurance plans to people who can’t get coverage through their job. Some people, depending on how much money they make, are eligible for deep discounts on their monthly premiums. Even families ...
There were days, nights and weekends in the early months of the pandemic when Denise Von Bargen was the only person running covid tests at the public health lab in Ventura County. She once had eight or nine employees to assist her, but, one by one, they had all retired or left for other jobs. ...