CVS Health’s management team appears confident its acquisition of Aetna will survive antitrust scrutiny though there may be divestitures where the pharmacy chain and insurer sell overlapping Medicare drug coverage. CVS top executives Wednesday acknowledged […]
LOS ANGELES — A plan beneficiary is suing Aetna Life Insurance Co., Computer Sciences Corporation Long Term Disability Plan and Does 1-10, insurer, citing alleged violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Chrystal […]
Low-income people with diabetes are better able to afford their medications and manage their disease in states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, a new study suggests. The Health Affairs study, released Monday […]
The Trump administration’s efforts to allow health insurers to market short-term medical plans as a cheap alternative to the Affordable Care Act are already running into headwinds, with state insurance regulators resisting the sales and […]
The Patient’s Right to Know Act would make California the first state to require that doctors placed on probation due to sexual and other forms of professional misconduct notify their patients. Several survivors of sexual […]
In a letter sent to the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ), the AMA urged the DOJ to oppose the CVS-Aetna merger. The letter expressed “concern that market concentration is a leading cause of high costs in […]
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