Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Latest:

CMS to suspend enrollment into Elevance’s Medicare Advantage plans
‘We’re running in when others are running out’: Stability drives record growth for regional Medicare Advantage plans
Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay — And It Costs All of Us
The gap between early retirement and Medicare eligibility
Where ACA premiums have risen most for older adults following expiration of enhanced subsidies

Part D/Prescription Drugs

Health Care Industry Spends $30B A Year Pushing Its Wares, From Drugs To Stem Cell Treatment

(ByLiz Szabo for Kaiser Health News) Hoping to earn its share of the $3.5 trillion health care market, the medical industry is

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Medicare overpaid health insurers $9.1 billion for providing prescription drug plans after they

Effective this year, if you want to switch to a different Medicare Advantage Plan, you get a change between January

(By Matthew Herper for STAT) Eli Lilly, the Indianapolis-based drug giant, said Monday that it will purchase Loxo Oncology, a

(By Adam Feurerstein and Matthew Herper for STAT) In a blockbuster deal between two of biopharma’s largest players, Bristol-Myers Squibb

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) The U.S. Supreme Court will consider a case next week that examines a

(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News) It used to be the stuff of stoner comedies and “Just Say No”

(By Nicholas Florko for STAT) WASHINGTON —The drug industry’s storied lobbying group isn’t accustomed to bad news — and with

(By Harrison Cook for Becker’s Hospital Review) U.S. children and adolescents are increasingly dying from opioid overdoses, according to a study

(By Ike Swetlitz for STAT) A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration policy that reduces payments to hospitals under