Cost-Containment

Pharmacists' success in the Lone Star State could set an example for other health care providers who are frustrated with ERISA preemption.

In 2023, U.S. health expenditures surged by 7.5%, reaching $4.9 trillion, or an average of $14,570 per person, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. 

Employers and benefits advisors could use a new database to find places where kidney care or diabetes care costs a lot more than it should.

When a board member uses this position for personal gain, the hospital’s purpose is lost, and those who rely on its care suffer.

For obese workers, even the prevalence rates for multiple sclerosis and lupus are higher.

The involvement of direct primary care and advanced primary care programs in state employee and union plans may help them in Washington this year, because health policy specialists at some of the organizations that typically side with Democrats on health policy issues may have access to direct or advanced primary care programs through their own benefit plans.