In finalizing its payment policies, CMS has bumped up payments to Medicare Advantage plans to 3.3% in 2024, slightly above the 1% raise that it proposed.

Only 11% say their employers offered lifestyle benefits that could help them prepare for health care costs.

About 60% of the 173 million people enrolled in private health coverage used at least one of the Affordable Care Act's no-cost preventive services in 2018.

Major insurers are taking steps to eliminate, streamline and automate some of the paperwork required for patients to get many medical tests and procedures, before the proposed CMS rule is finalized.

Health care premiums have risen 114% in the last decade, and many experts say employers – who write the checks every month – are underutilizing their power to control health care costs.

New analysis shows that $1.6 billion would have come from 30 non-profit hospitals – and employer groups are now urging state lawmakers to take legislative action.

As pharmacy benefit managers face scrutiny on Capitol Hill, a new Ohio lawsuit alleges Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics used a Switzerland-based company to illegally drive up drug prices.

The bipartisan pharmacy benefit manager bill, which was approved by a Senate committee, would make it illegal to charge health plans and payers more for a prescription drug than what PBMs reimburse to the pharmacy.