Category: Your Money

Eli Lilly’s published self-pay offer puts a five-milligram monthly fill of its Zepbound KwikPen at $399, while its savings-card terms exclude people whose prescription coverage comes from a government program. The manufacturer’s offer is dose-specific and time-limited: the listed promotional prices run through December 31, 2026, subject to the terms on Lilly’s page. The distinction…

Independence Blue Cross has agreed to pay $22.5 million to resolve federal allegations about diagnosis codes it submitted for Medicare Advantage members. A former employee who reported the alleged conduct will receive $3,825,000, according to the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general. The settlement concerns payment years 2017 through…

Households hit by Hurricane Isaias cannot yet apply to FEMA for money to repair a home or find a place to stay. The three federal declarations signed on October 9, 2026 are emergency declarations that open public assistance only, and FEMA’s records show no household program switched on in any of them. The gap between…

The National Credit Union Administration keeps a public list of liquidated credit unions that still hold deposits no one has collected. Unilever, Aldersgate and Mingo County Education are three of the names on it, according to the agency’s unclaimed deposits page, which was last updated on August 3, 2026. The list matters because of a…

Eleven is the new number. Under final rules issued October 5, 2026, an insurer or group health plan must publish out-of-network allowed amounts once it holds 11 claims, where the old trigger was 20. The change makes more of what plans allow for care outside their networks visible to the public. The rule is final…

Health insurers are about to get a slower clock for the price files they must publish. Under final rules issued October 5, 2026, the monthly updates that apply today become quarterly, and every insurer and group health plan website must carry a homepage link titled “Price Transparency” or “Transparency in Coverage.” The rule is final,…

Most unclaimed-property programmes make the owner start the process: search a state list, fill in a form, send proof of identity. Pennsylvania has been sending some of the money out without any of that. Its Treasury says the Money Match programme returned nearly $50 million in its first year, with no claim form, for property…

The Federal Trade Commission has told 24 of the nation’s largest healthcare services companies that meeting the federal government’s own price transparency rules does not make a price estimate honest. In the letters, sent October 5, 2026, the agency said the rules written by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) “do not create…

A Christmas parcel sent by USPS Ground Advantage to a military address should be in the mail by Wednesday, November 4, 2026, according to the Postal Service’s holiday shipping table. The same service to the lower 48 states has a send-by date of Thursday, December 17, 43 days later. November 4 is not one date…

Jarane Bines worked as a customer service representative for Conduent, the company that helps state governments run food stamp card systems. Federal prosecutors say she used that job to reach benefits of recipients across the country without permission, and that her boyfriend, Aljordan Cannon, ended up with $16,968.72 of it. Cannon, 28, of Jackson, Mississippi,…