Industry Updates
This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.
Three months after President Donald Trump announced his blueprint to bring down drug prices, administration officials have begun putting some teeth behind the rhetoric.
On Thursday, August 2, attorneys general from 11 states and the District of Columbia filed suit against the Department of Labor, challenging the Trump administration’s new Association Health Plan (AHP) rule.
For those who make too much money to qualify for health insurance subsidies on the individual market, there may be no Goldilocks moment when shopping for a plan. No choice is just right.
From credit card debt to saving for retirement and paying for children’s education expenses, stress over finances is taking a major toll on employees — and it’s also taking a major toll on the workplace as a result.
The CEO of health insurer Cigna, David Cordani, says the problem with America's healthcare system is that most of the money is being spent on intervention after people already are sick. Cordani believes we need to spend more money and resources keeping people healthy in the first place.
Premiums in California’s health insurance exchange will rise by an average of 8.7% next year, marking a return to more modest increases despite ongoing threats to the Affordable Care Act.
More than one-third of California's $200 billion budget goes toward health care. Private health insurance spending in the state, meanwhile, exceeds more than $100 billion a year.
House Republicans this week plan to approve expanding health savings accounts—a key tenet of the GOP healthcare platform since they were created under President George W. Bush—and significantly change Obamacare's tax credit structure to let subsidies flow to catastrophic plans.
Nevada’s health insurance rates will increase only slightly in 2019, the state’s Division of Insurance announced Tuesday.
Nevada’s health insurance exchange was injected with yet another dose of uncertainty over the weekend after the Trump administration announced it was stopping payments to insurance companies required under the Affordable Care Act to even out the burden of providing coverage to the sickest patients.