Health Care Reform

The online pharmacy joins Pfizer and AstraZeneca in supporting the price transparency tool expected to launch next year.

The company's president suggested that the program could help employer plans expand access to fertility treatments.

William Schiffbauer, a lawyer who has been working on federal health insurance legal issues for years, says any suggestion that the health care cost-sharing ministry case, Renteria v. New Mexico Office of the Superintendent of Insurance, could affect the class of "non-ACA" products known as "excepted benefits" "sails way, way off course."

About 69% of the survey participants who had received care in the past 12 months said that the providers appeared to be "rushed or pressed for time."

Despite ongoing growth in patient revenue, U.S. hospitals and health systems face persistent margin pressure due to rising non-labor and supply-related costs.

Nearly 9 in 10 U.S. workers view pharmacy-based care positively and 7 in 10 say it would improve their health.