"At a time when health care costs continue to soar, we are taking a stand against insulin price manipulation and fraud," said Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway.

The ERISA Litigation Reform Act, introduced by Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., is intended to curb meritless class-action lawsuits by clarifying the pleading standard applicable to ERISA-prohibited transactions claims.

The nation's three primary insulin manufacturers (Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi) and three largest PBMs (CVS Caremark, Express Script and OptumRx) are named in the lawsuit.

Several other states also are taking action to help residents pay increased premiums.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration sent termination notices to hundreds of grant recipients late on Tuesday, NPR reported.

"As health care costs have risen, employers have shifted more and more of the burden for health care spending onto their employees through co-pays, deductibles, co-insurance and excluding some forms of care from coverage," according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Even as patient experience climbs the priority list, revenue growth remains a central goal, the company's latest Transformative Trends and Data-Driven Insights Report found.

Epic, a global health care software company, and several care providers are suing Health Gorilla, claiming that the health information network improperly accessed and monetized nearly 300,000 patient medical records.