Health Care Reform

The "alternative funding program managers" assume patients get the drugs from charities or through other arrangements.

The UnitedHealth subsidiaries have told the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa that provisions in the law violate ERISA and the PBMs' freedom of speech.

About 1 in 4 adults say they or someone living with them have had problems paying for prescription drugs in the past 12 months.

Without a renewal, millions of Americans, especially those earning just above 400% of the federal poverty level, could lose access to affordable marketplace coverage.

Brian Blase, president of the Paragon Health Institute, talked about one possible subsidy shift proposal in a commentary he posted Thursday.

The current U.S. provider network rules give managers of health plans without out-of-network benefits a financial incentive to create artificial provider shortages, by refusing to pay physicians enough to persuade physicians to join their networks, according to the resolution.