Author: Rylee Wilson

Karen Lynch, CEO and president of CVS Health, says it's time to change the conversation around mental health — and business leaders have a role to play by supporting employees and recognizing mental health as an everyday health issue. 

The U.S. Census Bureau published updated statistics on the number of people insured in the United States and the types of health insurance they have. 

Updated COVID-19 boosters designed to target the omicron variant will be provided at no cost, regardless of insurance status, CMS said Sept. 12. 

CMS released data Sept. 1 showing how quickly states processed new applications for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program in the first three months of 2022. 

Oregon is adding mobile crisis intervention services, which connect people experiencing mental health or substance use crises with a behavioral health specialist, to its Medicaid services. 

Total Medicaid enrollment increased by 17.7 million, up nearly 25 percent from February 2020 — when the COVID-19 pandemic began — to May 2022, a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis shows. 

Price-capping insulin could have unintended consequences, as lower costs could lead to the drug being prioritized over newer, more effective treatments for diabetes, Michael Rose, MD, writes in The Atlantic. 

A Texas federal judge's ruling that requiring employers to cover HIV prevention drugs, or PrEP, violates religious freedom is against common sense, a Texas physician writes. 

Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and L.A Care Health Plan have teamed up to open a new community center in Inglewood, Calif., to offer free health resources and classes. 

Montana Medicaid underpaid providers of care for seniors in assisted living facilities, people with disabilities and children and adults with mental illness, a study commissioned by the state's legislature found, as reported Sept. 7 in the Montana Free Press.