Economy

Hailed as a more rational way for employers to pay for healthcare, the case highlight’s the strategy’s risks.

Different threats from major shifts in two industries are pushing Walmart Inc. and health insurer Humana Inc. toward the same solution.

Thanks to a higher level of scrutiny from regulators, many insurers also act as financial managers and this leads employers to find elective benefit alternatives.

Three hundred large hospital systems are teaming up to control rising drug costs. But even their firepower might not be enough.

Without having done much yet, Amazon.com is already transforming U.S. healthcare – and not necessarily for the better.

Hailed as a more rational way for employers to pay for healthcare, the case highlight’s the strategy’s risks.

Businesses worry about steep premium increases after Congress failed to address market stabilization in the spending bill.

NBGH’s Brian Marcotte and National Alliance’s Mike Thompson sound off on how benefits managers need to increase awareness of resources available to workers, and why the C-suite needs to get involved.

The service provides convenience and cost savings while ensuring employees miss fewer work days.

Aetna will pass on the discounts it negotiates on prescription drugs to about 3 million of its members, in the latest move to address complaints about the cost of medicine.