Making it easier for eligible people to enroll in and maintain Medicaid coverage also may help close coverage gaps for people of color.

On Tuesday, an appeals court weighed lifting freeze on Affordable Care Act's preventive health services mandate nationwide in a case most likely headed to the Supreme Court.

The end of COVID continuous coverage requirements for Medicaid and the expiration of enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies after 2025 will affect both spending and sources of coverage, says Congressional Budget Office.

"Looking ahead to 2024, it seems likely that employers will be challenged to absorb higher health care cost increases," said Beth Umland, director of health research for Mercer.

More than 8% of Americans (aged 18 to 64) have skipped, delayed or reduced the amount of prescribed medication because of cost concerns, according to the CDC.

Four years after a judge recommended the harshest penalty for drug distributor Morris & Dickson for its "cavalier disregard" of rules aimed at preventing opioid abuses, the Drug Enforcement Administration revoked its license.

The uninsured rate fell to 8.4% in 2022 from 9.2% in 2021, but there were disparities linked to ethnicity, says the National Health Interview Survey.

The health care provider plans to open value-based primary care centers in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and Virginia, marking CVS' latest move to get further into health care services.