Healthcare Finance Staff
Across the Mississippi River from a bankrupt cousin, a Midwestern cooperative insurer is entering year two with a sizable membership that will test its model of partnering with hospitals.
Health insurers in New Jersey are complaining of a cost crisis arising from regulations meant to protect patients receiving emergency healthcare and involuntary out-of-network treatment.
We don't need to put more emphasis on the penalties for not buying health plans; we need attractive insurance products people want to buy.
Medicare spent $4.5 billion last year on new, pricey medications that cure the liver disease hepatitis C, more than 15 times what it spent the year before on older treatments for the disease.
America's largest insurer is looking for all the scale it can get in the war for affordable medicines.
There is a fair amount of hope for private health insurance exchanges in the commercial group market, but a pure defined contribution option will actually require a quite disruptive change.
The gift will cover the cost for a da Vinci robot, the hospital announced, which helps surgeons to make smaller incisions, improves accuracy and provides 3-D imagery.
American employers are spending more on wellness programs than ever, but also backing away from penalties, as consumers respond with skepticism and researchers keep probing ROI evidence.
Cigna is looking for business in younger, yet-to-retire baby boomers in California, anticipating the benefits of streamlining the path from group health plan to Medicare Advantage.
Amid a possible bipartisan break in the clouds of Congress, insurance advocates see a window for changing or even repealing the much-loathed health insurance tax in the Affordable Care Act.