Consumer Driven Health Care

More companies are offering workers a form of high-deductible insurance called a consumer-directed health plan as they struggle with rising costs and prepare for coverage expansions under the health care overhaul, according to a survey from the benefits consultant Mercer.

Drug shortages in the U.S. are limited primarily to generic injectables and a few key disease areas, according to an IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics study released Monday.

Most Americans arent healthyand they arent getting any better not following the advice of their primary care doctors. According to a TeleVox Healthy World Report, A Fragile Nation in Poor Health, three out of four Americans (83 percent) admit they dont follow treatment plans theyve been given by their doctor...

While the benefit is extremely rare in the private sector, where use-it-or-lose-it policies prevail, state and local government workers around the country can convert unused sick time into straight cash, retirement credits or use them to pay for health care when they retire.

Say you've had a heart attack and your insurer offered you free medicines to help prevent another one. Doctors did that in a major study and were stunned to find that only about half of patients took them.

What would be a more fitting thank you to veterans is if practitioners accepted TRICARE, and the government didnt aim to reform the militarys health care system, too.

According to experts at Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company, there are five workplace trends that employers, HR professionals and brokers should be aware of in order to be prepared for 2012.

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