Healthcare Finance Staff

A startup health insurer trying to capitalize on digital services and simplicity is now offering members wearable devices and incentives for activity, another step in its bid to disrupt health insurance.

California's second largest nonprofit insurer is using a strategic acquisition to enter a growing, but challenging sector of government-funded health plans.

Record low healthcare inflation does not seem to be trickling down to average middle income consumers with work-based insurance. If anything, more Americans may be questioning the value of their employer health plans amid wage stagnation.

No deadline is ever really certain. The federal government is giving health insurers more time to submit data for the risk-sharing programs that many market reforms are depending on.

In a way that is deeply changing federal contracting, growth opportunities from the government have increasingly come not from war but from healing.

While some evidence suggests medical cost ratio mandates are helping make healthcare more affordable, there are still some long-term doubts. 

Amid an intense debate about the cost and value of drugs, a big payer and a big pharma company are promising to comb through their collective evidence and deliver new knowledge that may improve patient outcomes.

A population healthcare model in Mississippi that use telehealth technology to help curb the worst of diabetes has achieved early success and caught the attention of the state government.

The 2015 open enrollment is off to a pretty good start and the new market is working, federal officials insist, but for consumers and insurers, there is still a tough slough, albeit of a different sort.

With many health information exchanges showing mixed success, the impetus to start digital patient data sharing is increasingly falling on payers. Some of Colorado's largest insurers are heeding the call.