Category: insurance

Even as federal regulators take steps to constrain administrative spending by private health insurers, government overhead on health coverage has soared. In a Health Affairs blogpost published Wednesday, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler use actuarial estimates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to project that between 2014 and 2022, national spending on private insurance overhead and government administration will rise by $273.6 billion related to the health-care overhaul.

Is the intermediary landscape changing?

The colonoscopy: It may be the most dreaded screening test out there, and it’s the next step in KQED’s PriceCheck project. On PriceCheck , we’re crowdsourcing prices of common health tests and procedures.

To date, little is known about the health status of the 7.3 million Americans who signed up for health insurance through either federal- or state-run exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act…

Medicaid expansion supporters are targeting Hialeah – the zip code that saw more health insurance sign-ups than any other in the country. Several other zip codes with the highest enrollment were also in South Florida.

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the legality of tax subsidies to buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), an investigation by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of…

‘Aon Bench’ works for PMI and group risk

Jelf International issues guidance for employers

Employers urged to be more flexible to improve workers’ health, happiness and loyalty