Under a new federal rule, health insurers and employers that offer health plans must provide online calculators for patients to get detailed estimates of what they will owe for a range of services and drugs.
Employers are tapping into dollars provided through programs they have previously criticized: patient financial assistance initiatives set up by drugmakers.
A Washington woman unwittingly become part of a strategy that employers are using to deal with the high cost of some drugs.
Several changes in health insurance coverage could affect those who purchase their own policies and are not on Medicare.
Ozempic’s peppy ads suggest that people who use it might lose weight, but also include a disclaimer: that it “is not a weight loss drug.” Now — as Wegovy — it is.
Facing a host of challenges, Aduhelm’s makers are running an educational campaign directed at consumers who are worried about whether their forgetfulness is a sign of disease.
Hospital-level care at home is poised to grow after more than a decade, boosted both by hospitals eager to ease overcrowding and growing interest by insurers who want to slow health care spending.
Starting at the end of last year — and continuing into the spring — a growing number of insurers are quietly ending fee waivers for COVID treatment on some or all policies.
There is disagreement whether new requirements for hospitals to post price information will curtail prices and create better-informed consumers.
It's very unlikely that a vaccine against the coronavirus will be as effective as the one against measles, for example.
