The Biden administration has made health equity a priority and it has been a constant theme of conversation on Capitol Hill. But where do we go from here? One place is stopping health insurance ...

For 16 years, Larry Gruber, a fitness coach from Wilton Manors, Florida, received a coupon card to help him pay for a psoriatic arthritis medication he needs that costs more than $7,700 a month. Each ...

When Beth Waldron got a letter from her health insurance provider last year that her blood thinner Eliquis would no longer be covered, she faced two options: Change to another medication that could ...

When Alyssa Dykstra was just 2-and-a-half years old, she was diagnosed with arthritis. By the time she was in college, her doctor had prescribed her a biologic — a complex treatment derived from live ...

People take less care of a vehicle once it is insured; economists call this moral hazard. The same happens in health. Once a third party pays, patients and prov ...

Under the ‘copay accumulator’ practice, the insurer is collecting from both the copay program and the patient. They are getting paid twice. Managing a chronic complex disease is just that, chronic and ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., August 14, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HealthPartners is launching a variable copay benefit plan that aims to provide unparalleled transparency of cost and coverage to members.

Health care prices are on the rise across the board, and some patients have seen their out-of-pocket costs go up by thousands, thanks to a complicated insurance tactic called a copay accumulator. It’s ...

March 29 (UPI) --Copay discount programs offered by prescription drug manufacturers reduce consumers' out-of-pocket costs by nearly 90%, but fail to target those most in need, according to an analysis ...

A new federal ruling struck down an existing rule that allowed insurers to implement copay accumulators. Photo by Christina Victoria Craft on Unsplash When Alyssa Dykstra was just 2-and-a-half years ...