Consumer Driven Health Care

The Department of Justice alleges CVS Pharmacy filled large quantities of prescriptions for controlled substances written by prescribers it knew to be engaged in “pill mill practices.”

The high cost of health care drove the vast majority of strategies in the benefits space, as pharmacy benefit managers found themselves in the headlines far too often this year, as the high costs of drugs (and weight loss drugs, in particular) were a hot topic.

Four common misconceptions about HSAs are preventing employees from getting the most value out of their account.

Although the GLP-1 drug Zepbound has been shown to be effective in promoting weight loss, availability and price have been barriers to more widespread use by patients.

Immediately, Trump's new Health appointees were met with a rash of strong reactions from assorted media outlets.

CVS has been hit with at least three federal class actions, including two antitrust cases accusing CVS Caremark Corp. and other pharmacy benefit managers, the intermediaries between insurance companies and pharmacies, of price-fixing prescription drug reimbursement rates.

The lawsuit alleged UnitedHealth CFO John Rex interfered with the company's decision to drop "one of the worst-performing target date options in the entire market.”

After the killing of its CEO and the manhunt for the suspect recedes from the public's attention, UnitedHealthcare will still face a heavy load of lawsuits over its reimbursement practices.