Eroding ACA Enrollment Portends Higher Insurance Rates

Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act continues to erode as some customers struggle to make premium payments, with the declining numbers churning market uncertainty for insurers. In response, insurers are likely to raise rates again next year, following this year’s larger-than-typical hikes. Sign-ups were already down in January by about 1.2 million from last year’s record enrollment. For ...

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White House Adds Generic Drugs To Direct-To-Consumer TrumpRx Site

The Trump administration on Monday said it is adding generic medications to its direct-to-consumer drug sales website, TrumpRx, in a bid to expand a platform that is key to his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs in the U.S. The administration is adding more than 600 generic drugs to the site, President Donald Trump said at an event ...

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CMS To Withhold $1.3B In Medicaid Funds From California, Puts State Officials On Notice About Fraud

At a White House event, Vance said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid funding from the state of California, as officials have "not taken fraud very seriously."

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California Lawmakers Rush $25 Million To Hospitals Without Knowing Who Qualifies

A $25 million grant to cash-strapped hospitals became law less than a week after it was introduced — so fast that it caught some hospitals, their advocates, and even some lawmakers, off guard. It also left a litany of unanswered questions: who came up with the narrow criteria, how many hospitals would qualify and whether ...

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Supreme Court Rejects Big Pharma Appeals Challenging Negotiated Drug Prices In Medicare

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a series of appeals from several of the nation’s largest drugmakers challenging a program that is expected to save taxpayers and the federal government billions of dollars by requiring the companies to negotiate with Medicare on the prices for some of their most popular drugs. The court’s decision to deny ...

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HHS Withdraws Amended Vaccine Advisory Panel Charter

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday withdrew its amended charter for a highly influential vaccine advisory committee that would have loosened eligibility requirements, citing administrative errors. In a notice set to be officially published in the Federal Register, HHS formally withdrew its proposed amendment to the charter for the Advisory Committee ...

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