Healthcare Finance Staff

In my close look at silver plan selection in 2015 among HealthCare.gov customers who were eligible for Cost Sharing Reduction (available only with silver plans), I expressed some disappointment that CSR takeup had apparently dipped a bit on the federal exchange from 2014 to 2015. Disappointment on that particular point may have been misplaced.

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.

Official projections of long-term Medicare spending were lowered sharply in response to the ACA. It seemed like the ACA had made a major dent in addressing our long-term fiscal challenges. But had it?

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.

This isn't just theoretical. I was approached by a consultant representing large U.S. employers who were exploring pharmacy tourism that would send patients abroad for their drugs.

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.