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✦ Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is offering certain customers up to a 33% discount on their copays for 90-day orders of maintenance medications. The policy, which became effective July 15, applies t...
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✦ Molina Healthcare Inc. said on July 17 that it entered a definitive agreement to buy certain assets of Passport Health Plan. The move comes after Kentucky awarded Molina a Medicaid managed care contract award, b...
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✦ The Pennsylvania Dept. of Human Services (DHS) on July 8 named the successful respondents to its latest request for applications to serve some 2.6 million HealthChoices enrollees, but the agency said it is unab...
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✦ The average COBRA enrollee spends significantly more on health care services than active workers or dependents with employer-sponsored coverage, according to a new study from the Employee Benefit Research Instit...
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✦ A new report from UnitedHealth Group-owned OptumRx puts a spotlight on prescription prenatal vitamins — which the PBM counts among an “influx of clinically superfluous brand drugs that carry hefty price tags...
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✦ Employer health care spending could grow anywhere from 4% to 10% in 2021 as costs rebound from a dip in utilization tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from PwC’s Health Research Institute...
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✦ Centene Corp. said June 30 that its Illinois subsidiary, Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, Inc., agreed to acquire the membership of Next Level Health Partners, Inc. The deal calls for Meridian to transfer it...
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✦ A federal circuit court ruled July 6 that Amgen Inc. gave adequate notice to Roche Group unit Genentech USA, Inc. before commercializing its Mvasi (bevacizumab-awwb), a biosimilar to Genentech’s Avastin (bevac...
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✦ A federal district judge upheld the Trump administration’s proposed rule to force hospital systems to reveal the prices they negotiate with insurers. The American Hospital Association (AHA), which brought a su...
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✦ Kaiser Permanente is joining Civica Rx – the not-for-profit generic drug company run by health systems and hospitals — as a governing member with a seat on the board of directors. Civica, which was founded i...