An advocacy group for health insurance providers in the state wants to block a new law that would increase how much its members would have to pay ambulance companies for certain services.
Medicare for the first time is proposing to reimburse doctors for digital mental health therapies like apps and software to treat behavioral health conditions.
There's been a long lull in fighting between primary care and specialty doctors over how much they get paid by Medicare, but that truce might not last if Congress overhauls the system that determines physician payment.
The laws ban so-called step therapy, also known as 'fail first,' which requires patients to use more cost-effective treatments first before allowing a more expensive option even if that is physician-recommended.
In a legal fight involving two health insurance companies seeking to manage North Carolina's public employee benefits plan, a judge ruled Monday that the plan’s board acted properly when it switched to Aetna and dropped longtime administrator BCBS of North Carolina.