A federal appeals court has given the green light to a lawsuit accusing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan of mismanaging and profiting from an employer's self-funded health plan — putting claims administration practices under the spotlight.
Josh Weiner, senior vice president of consumer engagement and analytics at CVS Health, explains how the integrated healthcare company is structured and how it is using AI to achieve its goals.
Speaker Mike Johnson, who oversaw the passage of President Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' in the House, insisted to 'Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan' that projections that nearly 200,000 people in his home state of Louisiana will lose Medicaid under the bill are actually targeting 'waste, fraud and abuse.' 'There's a moral component to what we're doing,' he says.
President Donald Trump and Republican leaders keep pretending they aren't cutting Medicaid with their new tax bill, which will further enrich the wealthy and pay for it in part by significantly slashing Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans. Trump, who has repeatedly promised to protect Medicaid, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have both claimed that Republicans are simply targeting "waste, fraud, and abuse" in their tax bill, which passed the House last week. David Sacks, who is serving as Trump's "AI and crypto czar," put the Medicaid situation more plainly Saturday on his All In podcast: "This bill cuts $880 billion from Medicaid over a decade."
An electronic health bill requiring medical records to note a patient's biological sex and any 'sexual development disorder' passed the Texas House on Friday. Many LGBTQ advocates told lawmakers they feared the measure would identify transgender Texans, potentially outing them to medical professionals who might be hostile to them because of their identity. Republicans pushing the bill, however, described it as an effort to give doctors access to important medical information so they can give patients the best care.
New leadership appointed by President Trump now runs the CFPB. And the agency hasn't just reversed its position on the consumer protection rule — last month, it joined forces with the plaintiffs who filed the suit trying to block it.