Thousands of people lost coverage over as little as $8 in delinquent payments. They didn't know their zero-dollar premiums had gone up and they owed money. Most now can't get coverage until 2027.

With one month remaining before the current contract between state employees’ insurer, Aetna, and Duke Health expires, the biggest state players in health care aren’t even close to a deal.

To document the affordability challenges posed by out-of-pocket health care costs for people with Medicare, this brief analyzes out-of-pocket health care costs as a share of Social Security income and...

With many PBMs under scrutiny, smaller startups that bill themselves as transparent are seeing interest from employers.

Hikes could potentially increase by up to $50 per month

State House, Senate pass legislation that would regulate pharmacy benefit managers, which manage prescription drug benefits for insurance companies.

Medical students’ lack of exposure to the field and lower compensation are barriers to growing the geriatrician workforce.

It's an 'enormous amount of money ... we don't track,' says one MedPAC member

President Trump’s threatened tariffs could lead to higher out-of-pocket costs or insurance premiums, depending on whether drugmakers try to pass on the costs.

A federal judge in Texas blocked a Biden administration rule to boost staffing at nursing homes. The decision comes even though many homes lack enough workers to maintain residents’ care.

HHS offered numbers for FDA, CDC, NIH, and CMS, but few specifics

If CMS doesn’t reconsider its mandate, which forces independent pharmacies to go deep into a hole and lose money, many of them will close.

Measuring quality in health care is complex: a vast number of metrics are used to monitor health system performance since there is no singular definition of quality, and data is often limited and dela...

Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.

Defining Success through Storytelling Senior PharmAssist Defining Success through Storytelling Senior PharmAssist Over 28 years and $529,000 in grants awarded, Fox Family Foundation has ga...

The IRA of 2022 made some big changes to Medicare. The most meaningful of those changes is the amusingly named "$2000 RxMOOP." I muse on what those changes mean to my practice.

In this article, I review five key developments from the past year and offer five items to watch for in 2025.

The Federal Trade Commission today published a second interim staff report on the prescription drug middleman industry, which focuses on pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) influence over specialty g

Adverse side effects from medications can worsen a person’s health, but it's not always easy to ask providers about stopping a drug.

The public response to United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder misunderstands something important.