Broker Regulation

UPS has acquired a manufacturing pharmacy license from Georgias Board of Pharmacy that enables the company to not only ship pharmaceuticals, but to relabel them.

Health care systems contain Social Security numbers, bank statements, financial history, drivers licenses and more information that unscrupulous third parties can use to falsify prescriptions, sell the scripts on the black market, or obtain them for personal use.

Experts and regulators are raising red flags about one set of limited benefit plans marketed to individuals as ACA coverage for as little as $93 a month. Such plans could leave buyers incorrectly thinking they are exempt from paying a penalty for not having coverage.

Officials at the Employee Benefits Security Administration announced that they will postpone the effective date of the new regulations 90 days, to April 1, 2018, and only 90 days, to review information on the potential impact of the regulations on the group disability market.

A pill embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors if and when a patient takes his or her medication is touted as a solution to prescription medication nonadherence, which costs the American health care system between $100 billion and $289 billion a year.

Sutter Health intentionally destroyed 192 boxes of documents that employers and labor unions were seeking in a lawsuit that accuses the giant Northern California health system of abusing its market power and charging inflated prices, according to a state judge.