Cost-Containment

The Doctors Not AI Act would require a licensed health care professional to take responsibility for denials.

Much of what the nation currently spends on health care is devoted to managing diseases that often could have been delayed, minimized or even avoided altogether.

More patients are buying important medications outside plan boundaries.

The benefits can also help fill the gaps created by shrinking major medical coverage, insurers say.

A team of economists estimates that the new system saves plan enrollees an average of $55 in balance bills per year

Insurance giant Cigna stopped covering the drugs for weight loss on July 1, and more than 450 employees have signed a petition protesting the move.