Most U.S. employers with health coverage offer prescription drug coverage, but employers with fewer than 50 full-time employees or full-time equivalents need not offer any coverage, let alone prescription drug coverage.

The move could cut the cost of existing brand-name drugs but hurt the supply of new drugs.

Dr. Tim Church predicted recently that GLP-1 agonists, GLP-1 /GIP agonists and similar prescription drugs will soon be as much a part of the medication infrastructure as statins or thyroid pills.

Witnesses at a Senate hearing on health care costs attacked insurer dealmaking and data access restrictions.

CVS Health, the parent of Aetna, likes its employer health plan business but is taking a tough approach to pricing, a company executive said Friday.

Top executives from benefits providers and benefits brokers are telling investors that, for now, at least, the U.S. labor market still looks pretty good.

Committee members hope the Employee Benefits Security Administration will do more to enforce mental health parity laws.

One question is whether employers will have any say over how the plans' new overlord emerges from its digital crate.