Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
Experts: Insurers should post death-care quality stats
By Allison BellAn Institute of Medicine panel calls for bonuses for reducing use of unnecessary medical services.
September 17, 2014
7 things Harvard housing researchers can tell you about older adultsWhether you're selling LTCI or Medicare supplement insurance, you're drawing on the same pool of data.
September 17, 2014
Feds rush PPACA exchange plan user survey formsLack of customer information is slowing efforts to test the survey questions, officials say.
September 17, 2014
Your client, the diner ownerMedicaid expansion can help some of your clients comply with the employer mandate.
September 17, 2014
Your client, the diner ownerMedicaid expansion can help some of your clients comply with the employer mandate.
September 16, 2014
Keeping medical care between a doctor and a patientA state-of-the-art startup is turning health care into a free marketplace and helping brokers have the "price conversation" in the process.
September 16, 2014
GAO: Few exchange plans follow PPACA abortion premium rulesSeventeen of 18 issuers surveyed failed to bill separately for abortion benefits, officials say.
September 16, 2014
Individual health gains as group health shrinksThe Census Bureau cut historical data out of the latest report.