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The goal is to avoid traditional time-consuming tasks of communicating via fax, mail, email, courier and web portals, while reducing costs and speeding processes.

Progress toward a value-based care reimbursement system is slow, with clinicians hampered by a lack of information technology that could help them, according to a new survey of healthcare executives.

The move could reignite speculation that the two companies will forge a closer partnership.

While the move proposed for 2020 mostly affects P&C lines, the insurer’s extensive benefits portfolio remains intact.

The company's fully digital policy acquisition process helps increase its reach in an elusive sector.

Responses should demonstrate how similar customers solved the same business challenges in a hosted environment.

Combining claims and clinical data provides better understanding of health ‘in real time,’ says data director Colt Courtright.

Selection of Atul Gawande, MD, to lead the new healthcare firm will advance innovation and change, says AHIP’s Matt Eyles.

Atul Gawande, MD, who has written extensively about the U.S. failure to grapple with healthcare spending, will lead the new initiative.

Bradley Bodell has also worked at MetLife in various technology roles.

Several insurers in Maryland and Virginia are seeking double-digit percentage increases in monthly costs for individual medical plans in 2019.

Insurance companies are finally putting a price on the risk of distracted driving, and it’s relatively cheap.

The NAIC's three-year plan to adopt emerging technologies and a newly announced focus on distracted driving are sure to catch carriers' eyes.

The proposed Walmart-Humana combination is the latest of a series of moves that point to an abrupt change in the industry.

Retailer and insurer reportedly explored a wide range of options, including a merger.

Consolidation in the industry continues to accelerate, providing less competition, fewer options for consumers.

Insurers, drugstores, distributors and pharmacy benefit managers looking for partners.

Insurance payments will increase by double-digit percentages for Obamacare plans in most states next year.

Innovation teams understand that the connected world is evolving rapidly, and that competition is coming from industry newcomers as well as incumbents.

The bill eliminates a tax penalty for Americans who don’t carry health insurance, a pillar of the Affordable Care Act.