by US Rx Care | May 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
A recent article has highlighted the breadth of Big Pharma’s control of information regarding their medications, even reaching as far as drug research papers that are published in major medical journals. The article “America’s Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and...
by US Rx Care | May 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
A new report has found that small businesses that purchase their group health insurance online or through payroll vendors saw the largest premium hikes in 2022, significantly higher than those that went through brokers. Overall rates for employers with 10 or fewer...
by US Rx Care | May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Both employers and employees have much to gain from a solid voluntary benefits program. For employees, being able to enroll in an insurance product through a workplace voluntary benefits program offers them the advantage of group pricing, the convenience of paying...
by US Rx Care | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed new rules aimed at streamlining the prior approval process for most health plans in the U.S. Under the proposal, starting in 2026, insurers would be required to render a decision within seven days for a...
by US Rx Care | Apr 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
American workers are more stressed than ever coming out of the pandemic, and an increasing number of people are also struggling with mental health issues. Sadly, the number of people dying from drugs, alcohol and suicide hit record levels in 2022. When someone is...
by US Rx Care | Apr 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
While drugmakers have been assailed for years for increasing their prices and driving the cost of medications higher and higher, there is another player in the health care space that is receiving increased scrutiny: pharmacy benefit managers. PBMs are intermediaries,...
by US Rx Care | Apr 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
A recent decision by a federal judge in Texas to issue an injunction on a pivotal part of the Affordable Care Act requiring insurers to offer certain types of free preventative care, has raised concerns that some health plans will stop paying for these services....
by US Rx Care | Apr 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
After the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed new rules aimed at streamlining the prior approval process for most health plans in the U.S., a number of the country’s largest insurers announced their own steps to improve the process....
by US Rx Care | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Large employers are unwavering in their plans to continue offering group health plans to their workers instead of funding individual reimbursement accounts that would allow them to shop for plans on government-run exchanges, according to new research. The poll of 26...
by US Rx Care | Mar 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
A bipartisan group of House legislators in February reintroduced legislation from 2022 that would pave the way for employer-sponsored, stand-alone telehealth benefits plans. The bill is important as the current law allowing health insurers to cover telehealth benefits...
