Health News

The Governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards (D), has announced that the state is engaging in an innovative, new payment model to improve access to Hepatitis C treatments. The state will be among...

Mutual of Omaha, an insurer in Massachusetts, has been denying patients life insurance and long-term care insurance if they take preventive medicine for HIV/AIDS. In two legal settlements, one...

Transporting an organ from a donor to a recipient is often a cumbersome process that is prone to mishaps. Dr. Joseph Scalea, a surgeon from the University of Maryland Medical Center, has been...

The newly-elected Governor of Idaho Brad Little (R) announced in his State of the State address on Monday evening that he will continue the previous governor’s efforts to create state-level...

Aimed Alliance counsel Stacey L. Worthy explains how Ohio hospitals seeking cost savings by forcing stable patients to switch medications are putting patients at risk for health complications....

Let MI Doctors Decide conducted a study on Michigan’s top 25 health insurance plans, and none of them received a grade higher than “C.” Grading assessed the ability of plan beneficiaries with...

Doctors treatment decisions for their patients are being overridden by insurers with increasing frequency, a recent study by Aimed Alliance shows. Of the 600 doctors surveyed, 89% say they no...

In response to growing public concern over rising drug prices, one of the country’s largest health insurers announced that it will now share with plan participants the discounts it receives from...

State officials in at least five states have enacted laws to end “gag clauses” imposed on pharmacists by pharmacy benefit managers. The gag clauses restrict pharmacists from informing...