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More than half (53%) of health care workers believe their employer pays below industry averages

A judge granted the South Carolina-based health system's request for a temporary injunction, after the insurer gave "false and misleading" statements to the press about Prisma's proposed rates for 2024, according to the lawsuit.

The picture is bleak for official institutions, such as the CDC and the FDA, as well as the Biden administration, however, by far the most highly trusted source of health information? One's own doctor.

CMS has proposed speeding up the response times for authorization, but some desperate patients have turned to publicly shaming insurance companies on social media to get tests, drugs, and treatments approved.

HCA, whose data breach may have impacted 11 million patients, is among several health care companies that have recently suffered such attacks, prompting the FBI and Secret Service to issue warnings to potential targets.

A federal appeals court has ruled that pharmacy benefit managers are subject to ERISA, thereby PBMs working for state plans with rural employees must include brick-and-mortar pharmacies as well as mail-order pharmacies.