“Dozens of patient advocacy groups are angry over an unusual move by a pharmacy benefits manager that recently began offering $500 debit cards to people who agree to switch psoriasis medicines after it removed...

“By not allowing coupons to be counted toward the deductible, patients may be put in the position to decide whether to pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket, or not obtain their lifesaving medicines,”...

“Advocates for consumers with chronic conditions say the rule will make it harder for patients with conditions such as cancer and multiple sclerosis who rely on very expensive drugs to afford them.” Read the...

“When government-run health systems in other countries use QALY, the inevitable result is inequitable access to lifesaving drugs and treatments, the Goldwater report found.” Read the full story

“Imagine going with a friend to your favorite restaurant. When the bill comes, your friend generously offers to cover it—and plops down a gift card he received for Christmas. The waiter charges the card...

Health insurance is designed to cover patients when they get sick, but what happens when insurance companies stamp “reject” on a claim? Some of those patients may end up sicker, suggests a recent survey...

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), the goliath health insurance middle-men wedged between plan managers, drug manufacturers, patients and pharmacies, make huge profits by forcing pharmacies to pay back a portion of drug sales after the...

LANSING, MI (WNEM) – Michigan pharmacists are trying to lower the cost of your prescriptions and are asking you to stand up with them against inflated and shadowy pricing practices. “Becomes rather frustrating for...

MILBRIDGE — With the recent news about increases in premiums for health plans sold through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, everyone wants to vilify the ACA. The ACA is but a symptom of the...

In the past few months, four bills have been introduced in Congress calling for transparency in prescription drug pricing. These bills—HR 1038, HR 1316, S.3308 and, earlier this week, one called C-THRU—largely concern pharmacy...

Detroiter Glenn Ford, 63, could have avoided a trip to the emergency room recently if he’d taken the medicine his doctor prescribed. Ford’s insurance company wouldn’t authorize the prescription, despite numerous appeals from his...

President Donald Trump isn’t delaying his promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. On his first business day in office, he signed an executive order offering some relief from the law’s oppressive regulations. Congress is...

West Michigan’s cost advantages for health care services may be eroding. According to the annual Health Check report from Grand Valley State University’s Seidman College of Business, treating coronary artery disease in West Michigan...

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals company has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that a company it acquired in 2014 engaged in anti-competitive behavior to preserve its monopoly on a $34,000-a-vial infantile spasm...

Lansing – Michigan residents and schools will have an easier time obtaining life-saving medication to reverse opioid drug overdoses under a series of bipartisan bills Lt. Gov. Brian Calley signed into law Wednesday. The...

MINNEAPOLIS – Internal pharmacy records obtained by KARE 11, along with two newly filed class-action lawsuits, raise questions about whether some popular insurance plans are overcharging customers for prescription medicines and pocketing the profits....

By Brendan Pierson UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH.N) has been sued by three customers who accused the largest U.S. health insurer of charging co-payments for prescription drugs that were higher than their actual cost and...

NEW NATIONAL POLL: Patients Concerned About Uncertain Costs and Quality of Coverage 7 in 10 report that they or someone they know had trouble using their health insurance in the past year, insurance premiums...

By Randy Tucker The average monthly premiums increased by $4 last year for Ohio customers buying subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act through the state’s federally run health insurance marketplace, according to...

Seth Ginsberg Blaming pharmaceutical companies for high drug prices is a bipartisan affair. If lawmakers like Sen. Chuck Grassley want to hold the responsible culprits accountable, they need to look at all sectors of...

By DREW ALTMAN Drew Altman is president and chief executive officer of the Kaiser Family Foundation. He is on Twitter: @drewaltman. With 91% of the population now covered by some form of health insurance,...

Employers in Ohio and across the country continue to shift more of the cost of health insurance onto their employees, based on the findings of a new survey. Learn More. See The Study.

Rising out-of-pocket healthcare costs could be placing Americans at elevated risk of encountering counterfeit medicines. Learn more.

LANSING — Cancer patients and survivors are lobbying lawmakers to make Michigan the latest in a long line of states to require equal insurance coverage of chemotherapy regardless of whether the drugs are given...

Our investigation revealed the nation’s largest insurance carrier, United HealthCare, makes customers pay a premium on some prescription drugs, charging them more than the actual cost, clawing back money from the pharmacy and customer...

Rising cost-sharing for people with health insurance has drawn a good deal of public attention in recent years. For example, the average deductible for people with employer-provided health coverage rose from $303 to $1,077...

Twelve million Americans have gained health insurance through the exchanges created by President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA). But too often, their coverage has proved “affordable” in name only. Learn more.

The cost of staying alive this year climbed by $260 a month for Debbie Biase. Learn More