Consumer Driven Health Care

Sixty percent of employers pay $2.5 million annually in vendor management costs.

Drugmakers are offering several new options to enable employers afford to provide high-demand – and high-cost – weight-loss medications to workers.

The plans that the ICHRA users buy will still have to send those enrollees creditable coverage notices.

"In most presidential and midterm election year polling since 1992, health care ranked among voters' top concerns, with the economy taking the top spot in most elections," according to a new KFF report.

The in-network denial rate ranged from 3% to 36%, with significant variation by insurer and state. Three percent of reporting insurers had in-network denial rates of 30% or higher in 2024, a decrease from 17% in 2023.

"Eli Lilly is doubling down on artificial intelligence as its next frontier in drug development," one person commented on LinkedIn.