Health Care Reform

As copay accumulator programs proliferate through employer plans, employer plan liability is growing apace.

Office visits where nurse practitioners and physician assistants were the main health care provider increased 129 percent between the years of 2012 and 2016.

The complaint alleges that Walgreens and CVS, two of the state's largest opioid distributors, failed in their duties under Florida law to stop suspicious orders of opioids.

Brand-name prescription drugs only accounted for 17 percent of total prescriptions filled in 2017, but their costs took up some 79 percent of total pharmaceutical spending.

Among U.S. adults aged 18–64, about seven in 10 were covered by private health insurance plans in the first six months of 2018.

One idea is increasing funding for state-run individual major medical outreach efforts.