The approach: Let the state contract with wholesalers in Canada, importing cheaper prescriptions from up north and distributing them to the states health care system.
Insurers will again be able to sell short-term health insurance good for up to 12 months under a proposed rule released Tuesday by the Trump administration that could further roil the marketplace.
Health organizations increasingly are targets of cyber-extortion plots aimed at hijacking patients sensitive personal data, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warns.
The effort to make patients better health care shoppers by increasing their out-of-pocket costs seems to be working, according to actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Californias investigation, which prompted Colorados heightened interest in the matter, came after CNN showed California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones a transcript of a deposition of one of Aetnas former medical directors.
MetLife's failure to keep track of what the company now says is 2 percent of its pension clients, or about 13,500 individuals alarms some state and federal officials.
In every organization, individual employees are the weakest link when it comes to email security. Remote working, which is coming more ubiquitous and appealing, makes the use of unsecured email even more likely.