health care

Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, negotiate drug prices for insurers. But sometimes PBM parent companies also own the pharmacy they’re negotiating with.

The drugs are expensive out of pocket. Even with insurance, high co-pays can also limit who has access to them.

Patients on the road to recovery routinely face bills in the tens or hundreds of thousands.

Vinald Francis has a love of both art and science. Now, he works as a medical illustrator for textbooks and doctor’s office posters.

“Secular” sectors like health care and education, which are less economically sensitive, have been responsible for a lot of hiring.

That drop in payments has a ripple effect through the health care system. It’s particularly hard on small, rural practices, some doctors say.

One master’s-level program remains in the state at a time when nurse-midwife advocates say there’s a critical need for more practitioners.

In this week’s “Make Me Smart” newsletter, we explain the latest moves to establish a credible global market for carbon credits. Plus, we do the numbers on open enrollment and the rising cost of health care.

It was easier for companies to transition to making PPE at the height of the pandemic than it was to produce something as sterile and specific as IV fluid.

The generic drug industry in the U.S. has saved people billions and billions of dollars. But it faces new economic pressure today.