Friday, December 9, 2022: Life Sciences

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. and the Purchaser Business Group on Health’s EmansaRx jointly launched EmansaRx Plus, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) majority-owned by the business group that supplements employers’ existing drug benefits. EmansaRx Plus...

Friday, December 9, 2022: Life Sciences

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized updated COVID-19 shots from Pfizer and Moderna that target the omicron variant for children as young as six months. Children between 6 months and 5 years old who received the Moderna primary series can receive the...

Friday, December 9, 2022: Payers

A Mercer survey of more than 2,000 companies found that employers expect benefits costs to increase by 5.4 percent next year as health care cost rates catch-up with inflation. Still, most (84 percent) said that “enhancing benefits to improve attraction and...