Healthcare industry

Employers are overpaying for employees’ healthcare because the system wastes $750 billion per year on unnecessary tests and treatments. Most employers don’t take steps to monitor costs.

These places top the list when it comes to health costs, access and outcomes, according to new analysis.

For clients sponsoring high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts, ensuring that the HDHP continuously remains HSA-qualified is no easy task. But this checklist can help.

Health savings account participants are more engaged in their healthcare decisions but still see HSAs as ways for reducing medical expense.

The Trump administration this week proposed to allow U.S. employees to use tax-free health reimbursement arrangements to shop for coverage in the individual market. Here’s what it means for employers.

While more employers are offering a flu shot benefit, it can be difficult to get workers to sign up.

For employers sponsoring high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts, ensuring that the HDHP continuously remains HSA-qualified is no easy task. But this checklist can help.

There is opportunity to bring the health model to the employer-purchaser masses. Payers and niche vendors play a significant role in making that happen.

There is opportunity to bring the health model to the employer-purchaser masses. Payers and niche vendors play a significant role in making that happen.

With absurd price disparities in healthcare costs, smart employers are refusing to accept disgraceful aspects of the benefits and healthcare status quo.

Telemedicine is an effective option for patients who have trouble getting to the doctor’s office, but complex state laws make it difficult to provide service to everyone.

With absurd price disparities in healthcare costs, smart employers are refusing to accept disgraceful aspects of the benefits and healthcare status quo.

The Avella acquisition came in the same quarter that UnitedHealth purchased Genoa Healthcare, a behavioral pharmacy chain, for about $2.5 billion.