Consumers with high-deductible health plans are not as satisfied with their coverage as those with traditional plans. Two-thirds of traditional plan enrollees were extremely or very satisfied with their overall health plan, compared with just more than half of HDHP enrollees, the EBRI/Greenwald Research Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey found.

Healthcare spending declined dramatically in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but expenditures rebounded the following year, according to new data from the Health Care Cost Institute.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is directing the California Highway Patrol and National Guard to assist San Francisco authorities in combating the fentanyl crisis in the city. The two agencies will be partnering with the local police department and the district attorney's office to attempt to stem trafficking of the deadly synthetic opioid.

Compounding the already unprecedented scale and scope of the national effort to conduct eligibility checks for all 91 million Americans who have Medicaid as their health insurer, Medicaid agencies and their leaders were hit with a new challenge. The scammers and bad actors have seized on this as a way to make a quick buck ...

Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, reached a deal on new legislation that aims to increase access to generic drugs and impose transparency measures on pharmacy middlemen. The two senators, the new leaders of the powerful Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), said the legislative package will “reform pharmacy benefit managers and expand ...

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act), signed into law by President Biden in August 2022, includes several provisions to lower prescription drug costs for people with Medicare and reduce drug spending by the federal government. One of the Act’s key drug-related policies is a requirement for the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate prices ...