Posts from June 2019.
On June 24, 2019, President Trump issued the “Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First.” The Order affects the healthcare system at large, but this post focuses on the impacts the Order has on health plans, including the future changes a plan sponsor may have to make to their ...
By Lyndsey Barnett and Laura Caty
Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug. Period.
Until the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) removes marijuana from the classification of a Schedule I drug and unless marijuana is legalized under federal law, group health plans do not have the option of covering medical marijuana. According to the DEA, Schedule I drugs have a ...