Consumer Driven Health Care

A budding model for primary care that encourages the family doctor to act as a health coach who focuses as much on preventing illness as on treating it has shown promising results and saved insurers millions of dollars.

Aetna announced Wednesday it will acquire PayFlex Holdings for roughly $202 million, as the health insurer looks to expand its existing consumer fund services business.

You may think of yourself as a health care benefits broker or advisor. But did you also know that you are in the financial planning business?

When human resources professionals lose sleep at night, it’s often over employees’ everyday personal problems.

If you aren’t sure when to start getting colonoscopies and mammograms, just think family history.

The Employers Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) is asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to clarify where flexible savings arrangements (FSAs) fit in with the new Form W-2 health benefits reporting requirements.

In office just six months, Gov. Rick Scott has kept his campaign promises and then some: cutting corporate taxes, reducing the size of government, drug testing welfare recipients, making government workers pay into their pensions, and privatizing Medicaid.

Have questions about health savings accounts? You can get answers online this week.