Doris Spatz takes a once-a-day pill, Kisqali, to keep her metastatic breast cancer in check. As a patient in the Defense Department health system, she can fill routine prescriptions at a military pharmacy without a copay but also has the option of using a regular...
Health Outcomes and Insurance This week our CEO posted her thoughts on LinkedIn regarding some recent studies and the current state of health insurance for the individual and the outcomes of care. Health Outcomes: How are We Doing? We spend more but achieve less....
It is the annual fall season of Medicare sales pitches and we have seen a rise in Celebrity Medicare Sales pitches. We are happy to see CMS creating tighter rules around the sales pitches and confusion. We have seen seniors fall victim to different Medicare...
Almost 2 million of California’s poorest and most medically fragile residents may have to switch health insurers as a result of a new strategy by the state to improve care in its Medicaid program. A first-ever statewide contracting competition to participate in the...
Health insurance giant Centene Corp. has agreed to pay $165.6 million to Texas to resolve claims that it overcharged the state’s Medicaid program for pharmacy services. It’s the biggest known payout by the nation’s largest Medicaid insurer over its drug pricing...
Peggy Dula was driving two of her siblings on an unfamiliar road in Illinois when she pulled into an intersection and crashed into a truck. All three were taken to a nearby hospital, and though Peggy was the least injured, her ambulance bill was almost three times her...
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