Consumer Driven Health Care

For employers that set their employee premium costs last year right at the ACA affordability threshold, their plans will no longer be affordable if they charge employees the same amount in 2024 as they did in 2023.

Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the latest COVID-19 booster, a CDC panel recommended Tuesday, which legally obligates commercial insurance coverage of adult vaccines.

In today's fast-paced and demanding work environment, employee wellbeing has become a key focus for companies, and brokers play a crucial role in advocating and facilitating those mental health benefits.

Three House committees have introduced the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, which would require hospitals, payers, labs, imaging providers and surgical centers to use machine-readable files to list prices they'll charge patients.

Following opioid settlements announced by CVS, Walgreens and Walmart, the retailer announced the settlement, after a number of lawsuits claimed the grocery chain helped fuel the opioid epidemic.

On Monday, the agency authorized for emergency use updated COVID-19 vaccines, while on Tuesday, the CDC will set vaccination policy and weigh the benefits of these new vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax.