Healthcare Finance Staff

It was only a matter of time until a big regional Blue Cross insurer got hacked, except that time was a year ago and security experts just recently uncovered it.

Aetna has found itself in the odd position of being fined for covering something some members wanted, while not being fully up to speed covering another condition.

Staring down the sometimes troubled and opaque past of medical devices, and upward trend in spending, one national insurer is trying to build momentum for a universal way to compare and track outcomes.

This tax season, for the first time since the health law passed five years ago, consumers are facing its financial consequences. The worst may be yet to come.

Silicon Valley is coming for the employer sponsored health insurance business, trying to raise the bar on group health benefits and "democratize" self-funding.

The state that put itself on the vanguard of health reform only to struggle under the weight of its own ambition is now has an ultimatum for fixing its public insurance exchange.

The retail health chain that could have helped reprise Humana's historic roots turned out to be a good lesson in the evolving convenient healthcare space, plus it brought a tidy profit.

Amid a ballooning deficit, policymakers in Delaware are scrapping a proposal to introduce more cost sharing for state employees, a decision that may come back to bite when the Cadillac Tax arrives.

Another cooperative insurer is boasting about low premiums attracting droves of new exchange members, raising questions about long-term viability in the wake of CoOportunity's liquidation.

Highmark is expanding a low-cost approach to colon cancer screening that could help increase early detection while also avoiding the discomfort of invasive scoping and high treatment costs.