by Jordana Choucair | Jul 18, 2022 | Payers
UnitedHealthcare announced Friday it plans to stop charging fully insured members a co-pay for insulin. UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said on an earnings call that the timing of the move — which also includes cutting co-pays for other critical medicines like...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 15, 2022 | Access & Coverage
A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis found that 610,000 postpartum women were disenrolled from Medicaid within a year of giving birth. Of those, 31 percent were disenrolled within six months after delivery and 40 percent were disenrolled within a year. Among...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 15, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to AZ Swagg Sauce LLC and Electric Smoke Vapor House for not submitting a premarket application for is synthetic nicotine vaping products. The agency said the move, along with the other 107 warning letters...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 15, 2022 | M&A
Kaufman Hall’s latest industry report indicates total transacted revenue during the second quarter of 2022 increased over 100 percent compared to the same time last year. A total of $19.2 billion was transacted in the Q2 of 2022, compared to $8.8 billion in Q2 of...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 14, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released guidance clarifying that pharmacies that receive federal funding must fill reproductive health prescriptions. Pharmacies who deny access risk violating Affordable Care Act (ACA) anti-discrimination...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 14, 2022 | D.C. News
House Democrats voted 217-204 in a party-line vote to advance two bills that seek to bolster abortion rights. The Women’s Health Protection Act would codify abortion rights into federal law and strengthening protections that were included in the Roe decision. The...
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