The creation of consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), health insurance policies with high deductibles linked to a savings option and with more financial responsibility shouldered by patients and ...

Beginning with high-deductible health plans and cost sharing models, which started springing up around a decade ago, and continuing to the creation of health insurance exchanges — written into the ...

Employer worries about the cost of healthcare are creating interest in new ways of delivering health benefits. One of them,the so-called consumer-driven healthcare model,was the topic of a recent ...

Times are hard, finances are tight, the number of uninsured lives is growing, bad debt is skyrocketing and consumers are looking for alternatives to traditional insurance. As caregivers in a growing ...

America's health care system consistently ranks as the most expensive in the developed world. It's not, as some politicians claim, expensive because markets have failed. It's expensive because the ...

Q. My employer is switching to something called a consumer-driven health plan. What is it and what does the change mean for workers? A. Soaring health care costs have many companies looking for ways ...

Benefit-eligible employees of UAB, UAB Hospital and UAB Hospital Management LLC will have the option to choose or decline health care coverage during the annual open enrollment Oct. 17-Nov. 3. (See ...

Business owners, especially owners of small businesses, should remember when considering employee health care programs that one size does not fit all. When reviewing a health plan, an important ...

The Delinking Revenue from Unfair Gouging (DRUG) Act would require pharmacy benefit managers that contract with a carrier offering federal health benefits plans to "de-link" the fees they charge ...

America’s health care system consistently ranks as the most expensive in the developed world. It’s not, as some politicians claim, expensive because markets have failed. It’s expensive because the ...

In the discussion about ways to hold down the cost of health care, many factors are cited as possibilities to turn the tide. It seems the same factors being discussed by policymakers and health care ...