Healthcare innovations

As the services become mainstream, it’s time for benefits managers to get up to speed.

Education, addiction services and alternative therapy coverage to treat pain management are among the strategies companies are embracing.

The FDA issued draft guidelines Tuesday outlining possible steps patients can take to get prescription medications without seeing a doctor.

The president wants to allow for health reimbursement arrangements to be used for non-group coverage to employers of all sizes. If this happens, this is as an industry-redefining disruption.

Worried that its employees weren’t getting the preventive care they needed, the country’s largest bedding manufacturer established onsite health checkups to help them rest easy.

Worried that its employees weren’t getting the preventive care they needed, the country’s largest bedding manufacturer established onsite health checkups to help them rest easy.

As the new head of Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan’s healthcare venture gets down to work, we can see what his plans might be for the future of large employer health plans.

The transaction sets up a showdown between Amazon and pharmacy benefit managers including Express Scripts, which recently agreed to be acquired by health insurer Cigna and CVS Health.

Attempting to circumvent the costly specialty drug chain, brokers are encouraging clients to shop for FDA-approved drugs outside the U.S.

The health venture established will take aim at intermediaries in the healthcare system as a part of a broad effort to reduce wasteful spending

The Cognoa solution advises parents of a possible developmental delays during a child's early years, recommend therapies.

The CEO of the Amazon-JPMC-Berkshire Hathaway aims to address the “tapeworm” eating the U.S. economy.

Atul Gawande receives high praise from industry professionals; however determining who will support his plans remains a mystery.

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.

Smaller insurers are often hesitant at first. But encouraged by benefit brokerages like Lockton Companies, they are increasingly embracing this cost saving paradigm.

The snack maker finds cost savings and better employee health with onsite primary care.

Smaller insurers are often hesitant at first. But encouraged by benefit brokerages like Lockton Companies, they are increasingly embracing this cost saving paradigm.

The snack maker finds cost savings and better employee health with onsite primary care.

You can’t solve a healthcare supply chain problem with insurance, says one expert.