Consumer Driven Health Care

When implementing workplace wellness programs, organizations have the right intentions; to offer a program that will help their employees live a healthier life and to limit medical costs to the organization. The problem is that too many organizations are sabotaging their own efforts without even knowing it. And it's no...

This week, I’ll be back in D.C. for meetings with various policy makers recommending fixes to this provision, as well as to the one that requires consumers to forfeit their unused FSA account balance at the end of the year.

When analysts attack, the case for and against HSAs and, oops!, a health reform loophole is discovered

Many brokers today remain skeptical that consumer-directed health plans will fulfill their promise. But they are missing the point: the connection between health and financial security is clear to employers and, increasingly, to their employees.

Some health care stocks remain volatile with the federal government considering a plan to cut spending and raise the nation's borrowing limit, according to a Jefferies analyst.

U.S. physicians continue to sell their private practices and look for work with health care systems, according to a new Accenture survey. By 2013, less than one-third of physicians are expected to remain truly independent.

While the recent McKinsey survey has received attention for stating one third of employers will drop health coverage after 2014, research from the Benfield Group offers a different perspective—that most employers will continue to offer comprehensive health insurance benefits to their employers.

Some Democrats are up in arms over a McKinsey survey reporting one third of employers will drop health coverage in 2014.