It’s been just a few months since Haven, the much-hyped joint venture between Amazon, JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway, announced it was disbanding. During its short existence, Haven failed to deliver any significant progress on its goal of reforming employer-sponsored health insurance, but the experiment should not be considered a complete failure.

As the second round of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) winds down on May 31, small business borrowers who have already secured their funding and spent their loan proceeds on covered expenses will soon be applying for loan forgiveness. After all, the beauty of the PPP is that it was designed to keep Americans working ...

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association said it dropped a rule that limited competition among its member insurers, moving to implement a key aspect of an antitrust settlement the companies reached last year with customers. The settlement hasn’t won final approval from the federal judge presiding over the litigation, so it isn’t being fully implemented. ...

California could become the only state to let adult children add their parents as dependents to their health insurance plans, a policy proposal aimed at increasing insurance coverage among low-income people living in the country illegally who aren’t eligible for government-funded coverage. Former President Barack Obama’s health law let parents keep their adult children on ...

Small businesses are gaining more revenue this year despite the lingering challenges from COVID-19 and reversing last year’s losses, according to a report from Intuit’s QuickBooks unit. The report examined how small and midsized businesses performed financially in different industries and geographies from March 2020 to March 2021, analyzing anonymized revenue data drawn from approximately ...

Kaiser Permanente is exploring the use of artificial intelligence to cull through doctors’ medical reports and help identify patients with aortic stenosis, a common heart valve disease, and other chronic health conditions. As part of ongoing research into the predictors of valvular heart disease, researchers looked at whether they could train AI software to spot ...