Is the Amazon deal a bitter pill for brokers? Healthcare experts weigh in
The online retail conglomerate takes another step into the healthcare market with its announcement to buy online pharmacy, surprising several industry leaders.
Healthcare delivery
Wealthy Americans are just as scared about rising healthcare costs as everyone else
Employers have an opportunity to help employees make better decisions about retirement savings to address out-of-control medical costs.
Benefits Think How the new AHP rule changes will transform small businesses
The DOL upended the traditional dynamic of company-sponsored benefits and threw a lifeline to millions of small companies and their HR teams.
Kevin Dunn
Decisely
Wealthy Americans are just as scared about rising healthcare costs as everyone else
Employers have an opportunity to help employees make better decisions about retirement savings to address out-of-control medical costs.
Benefits Think How the new association health plan rule will transform small businesses
The DOL upended the traditional dynamic of company-sponsored benefits and threw a lifeline to millions of small companies and their HR teams.
Kevin Dunn
Decisely
A cure for high pharma costs? Import drugs, export patients
Attempting to circumvent the costly specialty drug chain, brokers are encouraging clients to shop for FDA-approved drugs outside the U.S.
Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan health venture takes aim at middlemen
The health venture established will take aim at intermediaries in the healthcare system as a part of a broad effort to reduce wasteful spending
Finding cancer patients is pharma industry’s unlikely challenge
The world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies, looking to sell a new type of cancer drug that could transform treatment, are grappling with an unusual challenge: finding patients.
Gawande says goal is better healthcare for 1 million workers
The CEO of the Amazon-JPMC-Berkshire Hathaway aims to address the “tapeworm” eating the U.S. economy.
Does Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan’s new healthcare venture leader fit the bill?
Atul Gawande receives high praise from industry professionals; however determining who will support his plans remains a mystery.
Health execs not ready for societal, liability issues from AI
86% indicate they have not yet invested in capabilities to verify data that feeds into their systems.
Dimon, Bezos, Buffett tap Harvard’s Gawande for health firm
Atul Gawande, the surgeon and journalist who has written extensively about America’s failure to grapple with an inefficient healthcare system, has been named to head a new venture for Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase.
Warming to self-insurance
Smaller insurers are often hesitant at first. But encouraged by benefit brokerages like Lockton Companies, they are increasingly embracing this cost saving paradigm.
Utz Quality Foods treats employees to onsite clinic
The snack maker finds cost savings and better employee health with onsite primary care.
Warming to self-insurance
Smaller insurers are often hesitant at first. But encouraged by benefit brokerages like Lockton Companies, they are increasingly embracing this cost saving paradigm.
Utz Quality Foods treats employees to onsite clinic
The snack maker finds cost savings and better employee health with onsite primary care.
Self-insurance viewpoints: Employers lead the charge
You can’t solve a healthcare supply chain problem with insurance, says one expert.
Medical management firms pull the curtain back on healthcare provider costs
Firms such as AIMM and Claim DOC are showing brokers and employer clients just how costly claims are becoming and where to find alternative avenues of care.
Migraines giving employers a headache
A 1,000-person firm could lose more than $80,000 annually to migraine-related health costs and lost work time according to a new report out from the Integrated Benefits Institute.
Migraines giving employers a headache
A 1,000-person firm could lose more than $80,000 annually to migraine-related health costs and lost work time according to a new report out from the Integrated Benefits Institute.
