Supreme Court allows states to cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood
The judgment comes in a dispute over a South Carolina policy, but is expected to have sweeping implications nationwide.
FDA stops Olympus devices from entering the US
The agency said it issued the import alerts because it “continues to have concerns related to outstanding Quality System regulation violations by Olympus.”
UnitedHealth changes leadership at care delivery unit
Patrick Conway, who recently became chief executive of the larger Optum health services division, will replace Dr. Amar Desai as CEO of Optum Health.
Health plans have a behavioral health problem and the answer is hiding in their data
Health plans have the data they need to address critical behavioral health blind spots. Learn how.
The transplant experience: time for change
Kidney transplant shortage exposes need for prevention, living donation and bold innovation.
Supreme Court upholds ACA preventive services mandate
The high court preserved a key portion of the Affordable Care Act that requires private insurers to cover a range of preventive healthcare services without cost sharing.
Prospect Medical Systems lays off 125
The layoffs will impact employees of Prospect’s management services organization, according to notices filed with state regulators.
Congress should reconsider breaking up pharmacy benefit managers, experts say
Many popular proposals to reform the PBM industry are missing the forest for the trees, drug market experts said this week in Washington, D.C. Instead, Congress should go after the root issue: the oligopoly enjoyed by the Big Three PBMs.
Best Buy divests home care firm Current Health
Co-founder Christopher McGhee reacquired the company nearly four years after the electronics retailer purchased the home care business.
CVS Caremark to pay $95M in Medicare fraud case
A federal judge ruled in favor of a whistleblower, finding CVS’ pharmacy benefit manager Caremark overbilled Medicare for generic drugs.