For now, insurers and employers are still not required to cover certain free preventive care services, such as cancer screenings and HIV-preventing medications, until the federal appeals court makes its decision later this year.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is assisting providers that are struggling financially during what the AMA calls the "most significant and consequential incident of its kind against the U.S. health-care system in history,"

President Joe Biden made health care affordability a centerpiece of Thursday evening's address, announcing he is calling on Congress to expand the $2,000 out-of-pocket Medicare prescription cap to all private insurance.

Just 3% of health system executives and 7% of health plan executives have a positive outlook for 2024.

Cost Plus Drugs CEO Mark Cuban was invited to the White House, along with other business and government leaders, to discuss PBM reform, while a trade group for pharmacy benefit managers said they were not invited.

Sen. Chuck Schumer has urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to intervene in response to the crippling health care ransomware attack by issuing advance payments to providers to lessen their financial burden.

In its latest update on the ongoing cybersecurity incident at Change Healthcare, the health care tech company confirmed that the attack was perpetrated by a cybercrime group called BlackCat or ALPHV.

Employers realize that providing these types of benefits contributes to their bottom line as well as worker wellbeing. The lack of adequate and affordable…