Healthcare

The highest-priced hospitals in 13 cities studied are typically paid 60% more for inpatient services and almost double for outpatient care than the lowest-priced hospitals in the same communities.

Topping the list again this year is the Wendy’s Company, which offers a combination of up to $25,300 in adoption assistance and up to six weeks of paid adoption leave.

The Affordable Care Act is the best chance for the U.S. to achieve near universal medical coverage and curb health care costs that hurt the nation’s global competitiveness, former President Bill Clinton said.

A 25-year-old New Yorker earning $25,000 a year will pay as little as $62 a month for health insurance next year, and a peer living in Vermont may pay nothing, according to a 17-state survey of premiums under the U.S. health care overhaul.

A recent delay on out-of-pocket spending could be complicated for those who think they have a single-vendor system, should their health care provider and pharmacy be considered separate internally.

Just 38% of parents said they’re extremely comfortable talking about insurance, while 55% are fine discussing the intoxicants, according to a survey released today by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

Concerns about finances, fears of unexpected death and more make this ethnic group a potential target for advisers.

Why it could affect their plan participants.

Definition of “reasonable” is a central focus of IRS audits.

Guest blogger Linda K. Riddell warns employers not to be wowed by vendors' "whiz-bang" options and the quantity of their reporting.