Health insurance

Choice to lead combined health company will be revealed soon, says Warren Buffett.

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

Miguel Edwards is responsible for digital customer experience improvement in his new position.

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.

The pilot program will be used in a cross-industry initiative designed to improve and validate the information in provider directories.

The health insurer’s rivals are striking deals to make them one-stop health superstores with insurance, drug coverage, pharmacies, clinics and doctors.

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