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Archive for June 20th, 2022
Bankrupt Status-Quo Health Plan Eyes Cost-Shifting Remedies
Monday, June 20th, 2022Cassie Brown
Monday, June 20th, 2022Insurance Commissioner Cassie Brown
Cassie Brown was appointed to serve as Texas insurance commissioner by Governor Greg Abbott in September 2021. She is the chief executive of the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), overseeing the regulation of the third largest insurance market in the nation and the eighth largest in the world. The agency regulates approximately 2,800 companies and more than 700,000 agents and adjusters.
100 Million People in U.S. Saddled With Health Care Debt
Monday, June 20th, 20226 in 10 working-age adults with coverage have gone into debt getting care in the past five years, a rate only slightly lower than the uninsured.
PBMs Could Be Driving Up Plan Sponsors’ Drug Costs
Monday, June 20th, 2022In June 2016, only two months after the contract term began, an individual’s claim for an erectile dysfunction compound medication totaled $405,325.43 over three months (more…)