Health Care Reform

Although it was expected to go live in late January, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced at a cabinet meeting last week that it instead "is going to be happening sometime, probably in the next 10 days."

West Virginia began to license PBMs in 2020. In 2022, the state began to require insurers to pass all prescription drug rebates and other prescription drug discounts on to health insurance purchasers in 2022.

An Aon health benefits specialist predicts that employers will have to work harder to monitor their pharmacy benefit managers.

About 46% of respondents said they somewhat or greatly preferred the idea of being able to choose from a long list of coverage providers and plan types.

Regulators accused the company of failing to make good on earlier promises to improve how it handles complaints.

When cost is removed as an option, the public rank prior authorization as the biggest problem, the latest KFF Heath Tracking Poll found.