Cost-Containment

In the middle of America's heartland, a small public school, Northeast Elementary Magnet School, has taken on a hefty task reversing obesity.

The gap between wages at the top and bottom ends of the income scale in Virginia has reached a 30-year high, according to a new study released Tuesday.

I had no idea the vaccination backlash ran so deep in our culture. Trade journal Pediatrics published a paper this week that reveals parents are delaying or skipping vaccines altogether for their kids. Roughly one in 10 parents shrugged off the CDCs recommended vaccination schedule, while 2 percent of parents...

An aging work force, poor employee health and costly medical conditions are expected to push health care costs per employee past the $10,000 mark for the first time in 2012.

Doctors in the United States spend almost four times more on health insurance administrative costs than their neighbors up north, according to new data.

Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage in 2011 increased to $15,073, a 9 percent jump from 2010, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust 2011 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

As employers have tightened budgets in this economy, they are shutting down entire functions or departments in favor of cheaper outsourcing. The long-term unemployed were victims of budget problems, not talent problems.

Many people are first attracted to consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) that feature a health savings account (HSA) simply because the monthly premium is lower than that of the more traditional plan with co-pays. However, if they stop at the premium savings, they are really missing the best part of this...