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.

Considering how the gender pay gap works against women's ability to create long-term wealth, setting up auto-enrollment in a company plan is the best possible option to increase retirement planning equity, says a new survey.

"To bridge pay gaps in the workplace, employers must proactively build pay equity and increase transparency within their organization," says Tanya Jansen, cofounder of beqom.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said a high number of ineligible claims contributed to a bottleneck in processing them and that legislative action is needed to deal with the high volume.