The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is shaking up operations to get out data faster and move more nimbly to respond to emerging outbreaks, according to a report from the Associated Press. The new initiative, announced Wednesday in an internal message, comes as the agency has faced criticism for a slow response to ...

A dramatic pickup in the pace of change for payers in the last year has created new priorities for health plan leaders, a new survey has found. The survey, conducted by payment integrity solution HealthEdge, reached more than 300 health plan leaders. Common themes, per a report of the survey results, included the move to ...

President Biden on Tuesday signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, an ambitious measure that aims to tamp down on inflation, lower prescription drug prices, tackle climate change, reduce the deficit and impose a minimum tax on profits of the largest corporations.

Now that the approximately $700-billion package is set to become law, what will it mean for you? Here’s a look at how the bill’s provisions could impact Californians.

US employers expect health benefit cost per employee to rise 5.6% on average in 2023, according to early results from Mercer’s National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans 2022, which launched June 22 this year and remains open.

Democrats are on the cusp of their most significant health policy victory since passage of the Affordable Care Act, but the legislative wrangling it took to get here came at a steep cost: The prescription drug pricing reforms included in the health, tax and climate package are limited to Medicare and exclude the millions of Americans with private insurance.