Solicit opinions about health insurance and you’re almost guaranteed to find consensus: It’s mystifying and irritating. “It just seems like a lot of the buzzwords are intended to just complicate
Recent surveys from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, Mercer and others indicate that the upward pressures on healthcare benefit costs for employees may be easing. What this means for HR
Medicare is the financial cornerstone of how tens of millions of American retirees handle their healthcare costs, and 2015 brought some challenges to the Medicare system that initially threatened to
Congress just kicked the financial legs out from under Obamacare. In a spending bill passed this month, lawmakers delayed three key taxes designed to help pay the entitlement program’s costs,
Health insurance is tricky to shop for. You pay a ton of money just to try to stay healthy, and if you get seriously sick or injured, you could still
A report just released by the National Minority Quality Forum has found that Medicare is increasing mortality among seniors. It describes how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMSs)
A new medical tourism report out today from Medical Travel Quality Alliance (MTQUA) warns travelers not to have medical procedures done in Dominican Republic and puts four other countries on
The elderly man from Oman who was receiving a cardiac catheterization was the third international patient that Dr. Patel and I had seen in the past hour. Before him, there
The more expensive it is, the better it must be. Thats how people used to think about health-care costs. As has become apparent in recent years, however, this is flat
Youve probably read about huge disparities in regional Medicare spending, without equivalently huge disparities in health outcomes. Youve probably read that quite a few times. It is one of the
