Missed the January 15 deadline for 2025 Marketplace Open Enrollment? Don’t worry—you may still have options for health coverage for the rest of the year. Image Enroll with a Special Enrollment Period You could be eligible for a Special Enrollment Period to get or change your health coverage if: Your income is within a certain…
On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission released its second interim staff report on prescription drug middlemen. The report examines the impact of PBMs (specifically CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx) on specialty generic drugs, highlighting substantial price markups by PBMs on medications for cancer, HIV and other conditions. The post Healthcare Leaders Support FTC’s…
The Braidwood Management, Inc. v. Becerra lawsuit will determine whether 151 million people will continue to have access to preventive healthcare services with no out-of-pocket costs
By MATTHEW HOLT It’s JPM week. That means a ton of startup bros wandering around San Francisco wondering who all the biotech guys and investment banker greyhairs are and why they’re still wearing suits. Unlikely to be wearing suits are the digital health kids and the VCs they are trying to hunt down. The glory…
This brief provides key data on socioeconomic characteristics and health coverage among children of immigrants based on KFF analysis of the American Community Survey data. It also examines potential implications of policies and actions that may be implemented by the incoming Trump administration.
This fact sheet provides an overview of health coverage for immigrants based on data from the 2023 KFF/LA Times Survey of Immigrants, the largest nationally representative survey focused on immigrants and discusses potential implications of incoming Trump administration policies for coverage of immigrants.
The Common Health Coalition’s Challenge on Community Health Workers is designed to advance meaningful CHW initiatives through partnerships between healthcare and public health
What options do payers have for setting prices for high-cost drugs? Examples include volume discounts, performance based contracts and coverage with evidence. However, is there a comprehensive taxonomy one can use for defining all these different pricing and payment options? The closest we have come is a new paper by Ardito, Ciani & Drummond (2024)….
A new KFF analysis finds that there were 44 million people enrolled in health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces and its expansion of the Medicaid program in 2024. That represents about 1 in every 6 people under age 65, or 16.4%. There was significant variation in ACA enrollment across states, ranging from…More
