Core and Group Health

The pharmacy giant has introduced a new Netflix-style membership that will deliver your prescriptions to your doorstep, along with whatever else you typically get from CVS.

The spotlight on the latest hot benefit solution blinds advisors to all of the other solutions that came before and are collecting dust in the toolbox.

The new drug, Dsuvia, based on a synthetic opioid that has been in use since the 1980s, is ten times stronger than fentanyl.

Costs are going up globally, with the expected average increase before changes for employer-sponsored medical plans in 2019 of 7.8 percent.

For next year, a benchmark “silver” plan--which provides a mid-level of coverage--will cost $406 a month for a 27-year-old, before any subsidies.

On-exchange health coverage selection activity is predicted to fall about 4.9 percent this year, to about 11.2 million.