What the government reopening means for healthcare
From insurance subsidies to telehealth, the new funding law has major implications for the industry.
Maia is a Minnesota-based senior reporter and founding reporter of Healthcare Brew, where she covers the pharmacy industry, women’s health, digital health, and how venture capital is shaping healthcare. She previously worked as a fellow covering the aerospace industry at Insider, as well as a healthcare reporter for Becker's Hospital Review. She has won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her work.
From insurance subsidies to telehealth, the new funding law has major implications for the industry.
The move will hit insurers, drugmakers, and patients differently.

As major PBMs weather trials and investigations, alternatives promise an easier way.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on direct-to-consumer pharma ads could make TV advertising “very expensive and very difficult,” one expert said.
While there’s still a long way to go, the industry is starting to embrace psychedelics.

The telehealth company offers a range of primary care and behavioral health services.

But clinicians still view AI positively overall.
The subsidiary filed for Chapter 11 protection after being ordered to pay nearly $1 billion in penalties for alleged overbilling.

And violators could face up to $1 million in fines.
Though the Big 3 control the majority of the market, alternative PBMs are gaining more traction.