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This upcoming year will see new plans, programs and point solutions in the marketplace to support employers seeking to manage increasing health care costs.
President Trump secured significant health care policy changes still in place today, including efforts to bring more transparency to prices charged by hospitals and paid by insurers, but he still wants to repeal and replace the ACA.
The House of Representatives on Monday passed the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, which would ban pharmacy benefit managers from spread pricing or charging Medicaid more than they pay pharmacies for drugs.
Keeping just one newborn out of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) could bring joy to a family and save hundreds of thousands of dollars in health…
Pres. Biden's administration on Thursday unveiled a new framework allowing authorities the right to seize certain drug patents and license them to other manufacturers in order to lower drug prices.
New state laws now provide insured Americans in Texas and Tennessee the option to save money when they pay cash for more affordable services or use any out-of-network provider that offers more affordable care.
Hospitals are not required to share how they use revenue from the federal program and researchers have uncovered funds that were used for purposes "seeming unrelated" to patient care, in a JAMA review.
Congress is considering legislation that would equalize payments for certain services regardless of where they are provided, but for now, patients need to have doctors send the order to a commercial lab like Labcorp or Quest.
Health plan price transparency offers the promise of empowering benefits advisors and health plan sponsors to design better health care benefits, especially for the 100 million Americans covered by a self-funded employer plan.
By aligning employers, providers and health plans around shared goals, benefits advisors can help reshape a spiraling system, incentivize quality and improve affordability.