Starting next year, California will join at least 10 states — including Colorado, Maryland, and Massachusetts — using tax forms to point people toward the lower-cost coverage available through state insurance marketplaces.

Technology company Salesforce has rolled out updates to its Health Cloud software solution with a focus on home health and automating processes for healthcare providers.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) wants a federal judge to ensure that preventive care coverage requirements in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remain available while it appeals a ruling striking the provisions down. The DOJ filed on Wednesday a request with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas for a partial stay ...

As pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) face more scrutiny about their practices and rising drug costs, Express Scripts unveiled new solutions last week that aim to improve price transparency and drive down costs. St. Louis-based Express Scripts is the PBM business of Evernorth, a subsidiary of Cigna. One of its new solutions is called the Copay Assurance Plan, which will ...

UnitedHealth Group beat Wall Street targets for quarterly profit and raised its annual forecast on Friday, as the healthcare giant banks on membership growth in its federal government-backed health insurance plans. UnitedHealth is among the largest players in the Medicare Advantage market, where private insurers offer an alternative to the original Medicare – the federal government’s ...

A slew of very informal-looking COVID-19 testing sites, paying passersby $5 a pop for taking a COVID test, is drawing another round of scrutiny for their lack of licensed staff and apparent flouting of public health protocols. Among the slew of maybe- or maybe-not permitted vending booths crowding the sidewalks of 24th and Mission Streets, in recent ...