Head of New U.S. Corporate Health Plan Cites Surgery as Biggest Cost

Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon who was named this week to head the company being formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to trim employee healthcare costs, on Thursday cited surgery as the single biggest U.S. healthcare cost and said there are ways to both cut costs and improve patient care.

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Defying Predictions, ObamaCare Insurers See Boom Times Ahead

Health insurers are finding success in ObamaCare this year and are planning to expand their offerings in many states, defying expert’s predictions.

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Hospitals Roll Out Online Price Estimators as CMS Presses for Transparency

Leaders at El Camino Hospital, located in California's Silicon Valley, wanted to make it easy for tech-savvy consumers to shop online for personalized, reliable price estimates for its medical services.

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California Lawmakers Want To Crack Down On Fraud At Drug Rehab Centers. Will It Work?

There are a whole host of problems with the drug rehab industry, according to a major investigation by the Southern California News Group: No degree, medical or otherwise, is required to get a facility license; and some centers are administering subpar, and even unnecessary, care and then billing insurance companies for it in the hopes of earning high reimbursements.

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More Nevada Kids Have Health Insurance, But State 9th Worst

The number of children in Nevada without health insurance was cut by more than half between 2011 and 2016, but the state’s rate of uninsured kids remains the ninth-highest in the U.S., according to a new report.

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Amazon, Buffett, JPMorgan Pick Gawande to Lead Health Firm

Three corporate giants seeking to attack rising health care costs have turned to a Harvard professor who has written books about the system's many flaws.

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