Health Care Reform

While hospital mergers often result in closures of obstetric units and reductions in local health care resources, there is mixed evidence of the effects on patients.

Insurers and plan administrators have already sued providers over their efforts to increase reimbursement levels.

The bill would extend the extra individual health insurance premium subsidies that Congress provided in response to the COVID-19 pandemic until the end of 2026.

Aetna and Optum have finalized a nearly $8.4 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit that has been litigated for almost a decade.

The dental plan renewal market is probably "about six to 12 months away from seeing some increases that drive brokers and advisors to look for other partners to do business with," Amy Friedrich, president of Principal Financial's benefits business, predicted.

A class-action lawsuit was filed last week against CVS Caremark in the Southern District of New York over its decision to replace Eli Lilly’s popular GLP-1 weight-loss drug Zepbound with Wegovy from Novo Nordisk.