Core and Group Health

In a major victory today for the Biden administration, the high court has upheld broad access to mifepristone, the widely used abortion pill, overturning an appeals court ruling that barred mail-order prescriptions.

The deal, which is similar to those with three other insurers, limits use of retroactive insurability checks to 90 days.

National Health Expenditure forecasters see increases in cost per participant slowing somehwat, while employer spending will rise.

Decentralization and telehealth can become a tool for medical facilities to reduce their carbon footprints.

The physician group approved a resolution to advocate for detailed explanations for coverage denials, which leads to "patient harm."

Hospitals overcharge employer-sponsored plans via their health insurance carriers to "cross-subsidize" the Medicare underpayments, and employer-sponsored health plans are stuck in the middle of this back-and-forth .