Health and wellness

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.

The Justice Department’s has sided with some states in a lawsuit alleging that the healthcare law is invalid due to the its individual mandate being shut down.

Non-payment of certain subsidies, less enforcement of a rule requiring insurance and limited competition caused insurers to raise their premiums by about 34%.

In a final look at the startup cohort, improving employee performance, managing chronic pain and detecting insurance fraud take center stage.

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

In a sign of its ambition, last month, CVS hired a senior executive from a startup that specializes in primary-care clinics to oversee expanded health-care services across the company.

Retailers are eyeing health insurers as acquisition targets to improve their pharmacy business, but carriers' information assets and analytics prowess are prizes as well.

Organizations that adopt Voice over Internet Protocol for their communications, such as video conferencing, need to take additional steps to keep sensitive data secure.

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.

The new hands-free tool is designed to provide answers to more than 150 commonly-asked health care questions by policyholders.

The life insurer’s LifeScore Labs division is ready to make its data tool available to other carriers in the space.

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

Insurers have been divided on the plans, with some insurers already offering them, while others worry they could undermine the ACA’s individual market.

Policyholders had difficulty finding care providers who’d accept their ACA plan insurance, and found that even doctors listed by the insurer as taking the coverage often didn’t.

Apple’s current Watch has a more basic heart rate monitor, but the company is increasingly pushing to turn its luxury fashion accessory into a serious medical device.

incumbent carriers turned to insurgent startups for telematics, big data and health and wellness initiatives, among others.

Bipartisan moves to extending coverage to low-income kids and shore up exchange plans will come to a vote next month.