Health savings accounts aren't nearly as popular as their more well-known counterparts like IRAs and 401(k) plans. Although their stated purposes are different an HSA is supposed to help you pay.
Simple Online Pharmacy, a UK-based online pharmacy chain, will charge patients with private insurance or those paying out of their own pockets between 199 pounds and 299 pounds ($251-$377) for a month's supply of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy. It was the first indication how much the popular weekly injection would cost private patients in Britain after Novo announced it had launched Wegovy earlier on Monday. Saxenda, a daily injection which is Novo's older weight-loss treatment already on the UK market and which is less effective than Wegovy, is also in short supply.
Adults who are eligible for Medicaid but not enrolled in the program are more likely to delay care due to costs, according to an analysis published Tuesday by the Urban Institute. The survey found 21.4 percent of non-Medicaid enrolled individuals delay medical care due to the cost, compared to only 7.3 percent of enrollees and 9.5…
The amount of employer-provided private insurance funds spent on mental health services rose by over 50 percent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. The study, published Friday in JAMA Health Forum by RAND Corporation and Castlight Health experts, found that between January 2019 and August 2022, spending and the utilization of…
The U.S. will head into this year’s fall and winter respiratory virus season with new tools aimed at easing the threat of infections due to a “tripledemic” of COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and flu. Last year saw scores of young children infected by RSV, overwhelming children’s hospitals and emergency rooms across the country. The…