Healthcare Finance Staff

Concerns over double digit increases abound, but there are also signs that individual premiums on average and in a lot of places may be modest.

The Affordable Care Act euthanized old school underwriting and introduced subsidies and risk sharing, too much and not enough for an insurer that succeeded in the old market.

AHIP's new CEO will need to continue the legacy of defending an industry, as well as help shape policies and market approaches for the still uncertain era of value.

The pernicious effects of America's sedentary culture in many ways mirror the country's expensive, convoluted healthcare system. Powerful healthcare institutions, though, can help change the course on the local level, advocates argue.

If the economics of running a health plan require the big to get bigger, it also seems that new models for services, risk and profits are needed.

Talk about sticker shock: Some U.S. hospitals charge patients more than 10 times the rates paid by Medicare.

With near-universal health insurance and an impetus to make healthcare affordable, health systems starting their own insurance plans believe this time is different.

Some promising breakthrough medicines on the market and horizon are going to come with a steep price tag that public payers especially will have to meet head on.

If Elizabeth Holmes has her way, a reinvented blood test will liberate Americans paying for lab tests and help cultivate a new kind of preventative healthcare.

Leaders of two warring healthcare healthcare institutions argue that a near-duopoly will benefit consumers and patients. The trouble is that a 60-year-old piece of the tax code leaves many without real choice.