Health Care Reform

To some insurance brokers and consumers, short-term insurance plans are an enticing, low-cost alternative for healthy people.

The companies have held discussions about a variety of joint ventures, including expanding their partnership serving older people.

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.