A Passaic County, N.J., man was placed on probation and ordered to pay $12,140 in restitution to Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. for fraudulently using his father’s insurance plan to obtain prescription pain medicine.

Insurance companies are expecting health care costs to increase by an average of 10.5% over the next year, slightly less than the prior year, according to Aon Consulting.

A survey of …  Read →

A new poll shows that consumer confidence in their health insurance dropped in the month of July, led by seniors concerned about the future of health care.

The Robert Wood Johnson …  Read →

The so-called doughnut hole that many Medicare Part D beneficiaries are finding themselves in with prescription drug coverage isn’t going to disappear for at least 12 years under a current …  Read →

Maryland has joined several of its neighboring states in offering a new free drug card program that can provide savings of up to 75% on prescription drugs to the uninsured …  Read →

A pair of pharmacists face criminal charges, accused of fabricating insurance claims submitted to companies, including Highmark, for nearly $1 million worth of prescription drugs that never reached their patients.

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The overall pharmacy cost trend for one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefits managers was 3% for last year, down from 5.5% in 2007.

Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefit manager that …  Read →

A New Jersey physician’s assistant will pay $4,000 in restitution and fines after pleading guilty to fraudulently obtaining controlled prescription drugs.

Alison Kinlaw, 32, of Bordentown, N.J., made the plea in …  Read →

The so-called “doughnut hole” is real for many seniors who enroll in Medicare Part D coverage, leaving them struggling to pay for prescription drugs at the end of the year, …  Read →

New York legislators and Gov. David Paterson have agreed to preserve the state’s Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage program, which had been in jeopardy of losing more than $50 million in …  Read →