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The HHS secretary said pharmacy benefit managers have agreed to support transparency guarantees.

If health care payers are going to make good on their recent commitment to accelerate decision timelines, increase transparency and expand access to affordable, quality care, they are going to need to infuse their utilization management operations with powerful AI tools.

Bill Cassidy and Thom Tillis, who both voted to confirm Kennedy as HHS secretary, questioned his handling of the CDC.

Currently, the U.S. health care system has high rates of health spending and poor health outcomes, relative to other countries.

An employer's plan through Aetna listed an exclusion for wilderness treatment for behavioral care but not for medical care.

"The HSA market is a function of new employment, job growth, people being able to move between jobs," Scott Cutler, the chief executive officer of HealthEquity.