Caitlin Owens

The PBM will pay more for brand drugs and less for generics.

The company sees big changes coming for the entire sector under the Trump administration.

CMS nominee Mehmet Oz would have to confront how Medicare determines what to pay doctors, and whether to shake up that process.

The nomination will be withdrawn the same day he was scheduled to testify at a confirmation hearing.

Hilary Perkins, who represented the Biden administration in a high-profile case aimed at limiting the availability of abortion pills, is in line to be top lawyer at the FDA.

Ambitious ideas about reducing health care spending quickly run into political reality, which includes heavy backlash from health care interests.

The pharma industry has to show critics its products are not just safe, but crucial to solving dicey health problems.

Many providers are getting paid much more than they used to for seeing Medicaid patients.

Hospitals immediately began warning of the consequences of big spending cuts.

It's not clear how the order applies to hospitals and other providers.

But today's pain isn't expected to last forever.

Here are the takeaways from Kennedy's two days of hearings.

His task this week will be to convince key Republicans he has abandoned old positions.

A lot of what HHS Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the rest of Trump's team has said is what he won't do.

The blackout has been met with outrage in some medical and science circles, while other sources have said it's more or less routine for a new administration.

Most of the complaints are false or misleading, especially when it comes to safety issues.

There are parallels between Prospect Medical Holdings' bankruptcy and what happened with Steward Health.

Dozens of Illinois birds have died from the flu this month, but human risk is low so far.

But if it does become a pandemic, the U.S. is probably underprepared.

AI has certainly received a lot of hype in health care, but it still hasn't fully proved itself in the real world and is facing several challenges.