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Criticism of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of Health and Human Services, is growing in the wake of contentious congressional hearings about vaccine policy and staff upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At a time of significant rate hikes and financial pressures, large employers, which account for more than $800 billion in health care expenditures, are driving the future of the health benefits market.
More than one million employers and self-employed individuals took advantage of a special IRS provision that allowed them to defer $133 billion in Social Security payments during the pandemic.
The lawsuit, filed earlier in August in a U.S. District Court in Arizona, claims that Radiology Partners has used arbitration as a “vehicle to obtain a windfall for its private equity investors."
Patients whose employers offered a 'preventice drug list' coverage experienced 35% to 55% relative reductions in out-of-pocket payments during the study period.
Meanwhile, access to Wegovy has improved slightly compared to last year, due in part to CVS Caremark’s decision to prefer Wegovy on its standard formulary.