Healthcare Finance Staff

As health insurance membership grows, so too are profit margins for some of the largest managed care companies, although of course that's not the case for every health plan.

In many parts of the world, rates of cesarean delivery are too high, and growing. We need to understand the potential consequences.

There is a good chance that your grandparents were born at home. I am going to go ahead and assume they turned out fine, or at least fine enough, since you were eventually born too and are now reading this.

Once a stopgap for people between jobs, short-term policies appear to be enjoying a resurgence, despite hope that consumer interest would decline after the ACA.

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.

Nearly 4,000 healthcare professionals from across the U.S. convened in Nashville last week for America's Health Insurance Plans annual Institute, and the conference theme of "Making Healthcare Work" resonates.

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.