Consumer Driven Health Care

In today's fast-paced and demanding work environment, employee wellbeing has become a key focus for companies, and brokers play a crucial role in advocating and facilitating those mental health benefits.

Three House committees have introduced the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, which would require hospitals, payers, labs, imaging providers and surgical centers to use machine-readable files to list prices they'll charge patients.

Following opioid settlements announced by CVS, Walgreens and Walmart, the retailer announced the settlement, after a number of lawsuits claimed the grocery chain helped fuel the opioid epidemic.

On Monday, the agency authorized for emergency use updated COVID-19 vaccines, while on Tuesday, the CDC will set vaccination policy and weigh the benefits of these new vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax.

The Biden administration asked the high court on Sept. 8 to uphold broad access to mifepristone, the widely used abortion pill, seeking a review of a ruling that would bar mail-order prescriptions and require in-person doctor visits.

The CDC committee, which sets U.S. vaccination policy and helps determine insurance coverage for vaccines, will vote on the question Tuesday as it weighs the benefits of updated vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax.