Consumer Driven Health Care

Information is a word that's bandied about in no small measure in this country when the subject of health care comes up.

A brisk walk may not just keep your body in shape, it will help keep your mind sharp, too.

If you participate in health savings accounts, then odds are you think more about retirement. Analysis from Fidelity Investments claims 401(k) participants with an HSA accrued more than twice as much in their 401(k)s as the average participant.

The average per capita cost of health care services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased by 5.58 percent over the 12-months ending May 2011, according to data from Standard & Poor’s Healthcare Economic Composite Index.

The cost of medical care for people in employer-sponsored health plans rose at an annualized rate of 3.8 percent in the first quarter of 2011, according to the Thomson Reuters Healthcare Spending Index for Private Insurance.

While the wellness industry is evolving at an amazing rate, organizations continue to implement programs with little or no planning and goal setting on the front end. That's like showing up to a board of directors meeting and nobody has an agenda. Without carefully planning out goals and objectives of...

The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet.

If new law legislation introduced today becomes law, the days of the FSA “use it or lose it” rule could become a thing of the past.