Pharmacy

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, DaVita devised a scheme to maximize the amount of drugs it waste, billing Medicare for the price of the dose and the waste.

To ease the financial burden, the California agency that governs the state's Affordable Care Act marketplace issued landmark rules recently that will limit the amount anyone enrolled in one of those plans can be charged each month for high-end medicine.

A bipartisan group of House and Senate legislators introduced bills last week that would require health plans to cover the growing number of oral chemotherapy pills as favorably as they do intravenous chemotherapy.

Nearly three in four Americans say the costs of prescription drugs are "unreasonable," with most putting the blame on drugmakers, a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found.

Target's nearly 80 walk-in clinic locations will be rebranded as CVS MinuteClinics, and CVS Health will open as many as 20 new clinics in Target stores within three years as part of the company's goal to have 1,500 by 2017.

Medicare drug plans are cutting back on coverage for a specially designated type of painkiller that deters abuse in favor of cheaper generics that don't have the same deterrent qualities, a new study found.

Diagnostic tests on urine, blood often cost less than a trip to the movies, as California-based startup aims to take over the market.

Entrepreneur claims direct-to-consumer laboratory testing and price transparency are an integral piece of health reform and a solution to America's disease and cost problems.

Expenses are climbing by 8 percent this year over last, from $416 billion in 2014 to $608 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Kalorama Information.

Depending on how much the program is reformed, it could mean the difference of hundreds of millions of dollars for the thousands of hospitals who get a drug discount.