Senator Bernie Sanders, who cites a Yale study that found an Ozempic dose costs Novo Nordisk less than $5 a month to manufacture, wants to meet with the drugmaker's CEO to discuss the drug's costs.
Larry Krasner, Philadelphia's district attorney, filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and other drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers, on behalf of the 1.1 million Pennsylvanians who have diabetes, like himself.
Last fall, the Biden administration issued an executive order giving the Department of Health and Human Services the daunting task of putting guardrails around increasingly advanced artificial intelligence health care models.
The Washington Saves program, which will take effect in 2027, was signed into law late last week, and will require certain employers that do not offer a retirement plan to enroll employees into the state-run auto-IRA program.
Optum, which already has more than 90,000 employed or affiliated physicians, has agreed to purchase Steward Health Care's struggling physician group, which includes primary care in addition to a physician contracting network.
Highlighting the impact of the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, the feds are offering a bounty on information leading to the identification of anyone who holds a key leadership position in the "Blackcat" ransomware group.
Many hospitals are adding billions of dollars in fees for routine care in outpatient centers they own, raising patient costs for colonoscopies, mammograms and heart screenings, a new investigation found.