Health Care Reform

The Employee Benefits Security Administration also intends to prioritize surprise billing cases.

He has proposed curbing PBMs and sending any cash subsidies directly to consumers.

Between Nov. 1 and Jan. 3, 22.8 million people signed up for 2026 individual Affordable Care Act Marketplace health insurance coverage, according to the latest update from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

“As health care costs have risen, employers have shifted more and more of the burden for health care spending onto their employees through co-pays, deductibles, co-insurance and excluding some forms of care from coverage,” according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

One patient says she has trouble getting Accredo to send her a drug that prevents rejection of an organ transplant.

Investigators did find that UnitedHealth's risk assessment people looked hard for signs of health problems not mentioned by patients' own doctors.