Healthcare delivery

The alliance of Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan is a positive move that will elevate the call for more quality care at a lower cost.

The CVS Health Inc.-Aetna Inc. tie-up is in the shade after last week's announcement of a health partnership between Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and JPMorgan Chase.

There are four ways to make the two healthcare spending accounts work together, but they are often under-utilized.

Providing benefits such as dental and short-term disability is a smart way for employers to try out the insurance arrangement, which has the potential to save money and provide greater transparency.

Employers will be relying on brokers to know the ins and outs of each benefit account as they take a larger role in their employees’ health benefit plans.

Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase say they plan to collaborate on a way to offer healthcare services to their U.S. employees more transparently and at a lower cost.

Collecting cost data and offering consumer-oriented tools to employees can help firms expose the widespread problem of variation in medical price and quality.

Benefit advisers and employers need to take aim at physicians overprescribing pain meds and the insurance carriers who look the other way.

Telehealth will tackle behavioral health, second opinions for cancer and more, says Teladoc’s Dan Trencher.

Telehealth will tackle behavioral health, second opinions for cancer and more, says Teladoc’s Dan Trencher.