Health Care Reform

The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance increased faster than the rate of inflation and wage growth this year.

As hospitals focus to expand community-focused pharmacy services, their leaders are prioritizing chronic disease adherence, transitions of care, and 340B optimization.

Americans in the top-ranked states are more likely to report receiving high-quality, proactive care from their providers and to experience fewer barriers to accessing health care services, including challenges related to finding providers, transportation and personal health or mobility limitations.

Eighty-five percent of health plan leaders struggle with provider data inaccuracies, with an average of 19% of their data considered unreliable, a new report found.

Jeff Smedsrud says the products can help group health plan enrollees cope with rising out-of-pocket costs and others cope with uncertainty.

The Unfunded Mandates Accountability and Transparency Act of 2025 bill would require federal agencies to publish a regulatory impact analysis for most rules with an anticipated annual economic impact of $100 million or more.