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Medicare Advantage members continue to be highly satisfied overall, but believe the plans still have significant room for improvement, according to the J.D. Power 2018 Medicare Advantage Study.

Dr. Atul Gawande, the surgeon named to head the company formed in an effort to cut employee health care costs, recently spoke at the annual meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans.

Despite the fact that the CDC's guidelines were issued more than two years ago, overprescribing and prescriptions of opioids for acute pain management are still a problem.

62 percent said they'd be happy for insurers to use third-party data from the likes of Facebook, fitness apps and smart-home devices to lower prices.

The groups that help people sign up for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act are left wondering when or if they will get funding from the federal government to continue their work this year.

Since last October, the FDA has been cracking down on international drug mailings under the guise of combating illegal opioid imports.