Healthcare Finance Staff

After quietly building a small insurance unit, one of the nation's largest health systems is launching a new health plan brand that could pose more competition for established insurers.

The healthcare tech boom continues, as one of the most-heralded consumer insurance comparison startups was acquired by an insurance services firm hungry for growth.

Evidence from recent federal enforcement actions suggest pharmacy benefit managers are exposing public-payer managed care plans to problems that could send shivers up executive's spines.

Uncompensated care was supposed to be a thing of the past, but it's persisting in many states not expanding Medicaid eligibility. As an alternative, for some high-cost uninsured patients, hospitals are turning to a new option.

Group plans are increasingly expanding their consumer-directed health plans with health savings accounts, after toying with lower deductibles and reimbursement account wrapping.

One of the nation's largest health insurance advocacy groups is welcoming in a new chief executive, amid a tumultuous regulatory environment.

Amid record enrollment in Medicaid and state concerns about the program's budgetary sustainability, the federal government is offering new financial support and policy options.

In California, insurers and regulators are fighting for control of the post-reform insurance market.

With federal rules governing health plan spending looking like they're here to stay, insurers are making inroads on compliance, although they will hope for possible tweaks in the future.

As Affordable Care Act exchanges bring health plans to previously uninsured Americans, there are also market segment transitions that could prove favorable for risk pools.