Among other things, the Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act authorized the Centers...
Drugs and technology
Prices for top Medicare drugs are up a lot
The prices for brand-name drugs have been rising much faster than the rate of inflation for tens of...
Bipartisan bill would require big insurers to sell off their PBMs
At least some Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree that it is time to create distance...
Pharmacy middlemen are responsible for hundreds of pharmacy...
Benjamin Jolley writes for substack on how the big insurers are deploying their pharmacy benefit...
New physician survey finds prior authorization harms cancer...
Here’s yet another reason to opt for traditional Medicare over insurer-run Medicare Advantage...
If confirmed as head of HHS, RFK Jr. could end Pharma’s direct...
If Congress confirms RFK Jr. to head the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), it might...
Why do people pay so much for Humira now that it’s...
Humira, the exorbitantly priced drug taken by millions of Americans, finally lost its patent at the...
Lower income Medicare cancer patients less likely to get optimal...
A new study of Medicare cancer patients published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finds that...
UnitedHealth, CVS and Cigna helped fuel opioid crisis
[Editor’s note: I am reposting this piece because it brilliantly exposes how the drug...
Beware of medical devices that the FDA has recalled
David Hilzenrath reports for KFFHealth News on how defective medical devices end up remaining in...