President Joe Biden’s proposed 2023 budget submitted to Congress gives the Department of Health and Human Services $127.3 billion in discretionary budget authority and $1.7 trillion in mandatory funding.  

There are several legislative proposals in Congress, some stalled and some nascent, that would propose a $35 per-month cap on what insured Americans would pay out-of-pocket for insulin – and this cap in costs would benefit about 25% of those on individual and small group markets, and about 20% of those in larger employer-sponsored plans.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recently sided with United Behavioral Health in a decision reversing a lower court ruling ordering the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary to reprocess thousands of claims for mental health coverage. In 2019, plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit successfully won their case in district court that UBH breached […]