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Risk & Insurance® and Healthcare Solutions convene a pharmacy benefit management roundtable discussion over breakfast in Atlanta.

Inadequate state funding, voluntary programs and a lack of interstate operability hamper efforts to reduce prescription drug abuse.

A patient-centered approach that reduces adversarial tension puts employees on the road to recovery faster.

Disallowing a cheaper form of the drug could spurn abuse.

CVS's punitive wellness policy raises effectiveness and legal issues.

A new strain of bird flu in China has killed nine and infected 28 others. Health officials are gearing up against the disease.

Gangs of Chinese hackers are going after intellectual property associated with new drugs and devices as well as business processes that improve efficiency.

Workers' comp payers are fed up with astronomical mark-ups and patients who languish on pain meds without improving.

Unsafe practices at outpatient medical facilities account for nearly all of the outbreaks of blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis C.

It's unclear what impact health care consolidations will have on controlling infection outbreaks.

The new law streamlines the process for Medicare recipients, insurers and TPAs to settle claims.

The data supporting the creation of medical provider networks is starting to pile up.

The health care reform law may have a significant impact on the brokerage industry -- from shrinking commissions to more mergers and acquisitions.

With 23 deaths and more than 14,000 people possibly exposed, nobody seems exactly sure how to handle the current meningitis outbreak.

Despite the efforts of some, there are no federal sterility guidelines for compounding pharmacies that make and distribute drugs all over the country.

Risks increase as organizations add providers to expand services.

Another person has died from fungal meningitis linked to possibly tainted vials of a steroid medication, bringing the death toll in an outbreak to 15.

If employers had any doubt about the effectiveness of penalizing smokers through higher insurance premiums, the most recent announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should put it to rest.

In a world that is supposed to provide a sanctuary, health-care workers find themselves victims of bullying and violence by patients, staff and even visitors. Tension festers and often spills out into the open.

Employers, penalized in every way, take it on the chin and the new law does nothing to control costs.