Employee-Paid

The agency issued its final rule for the use of federal Medicaid and CHIP funds to pay for these procedures and also referred dozens of hospitals. and health care providers for investigation into alleged improper billing for gender-affirming care.

The president predicted in December that his administration's efforts would cut prices by 400% to 600%.

Regulators could use another guide, still in development, to cope with ERISA preemption of state PBM rules.

U.S. District Judge Clay Land said in the order that he agreed with the plaintiffs' view that at least some insurance contracts might create obligations for an insurance company to protect the insureds' data.

One question may be who regulates the minimum stop-loss insurance claim size.

The median allowance is $459 per covered life, the HRA Council reports.