Posted by Admin | 11:00 AM

Private health insurance exchanges will save employers money but not make health insurance cheaper. Because private health insurance will sa...

Labels: Consumer Driven Care, Defined Contribution Health Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Trend, Private Insurance Exchanges

Posted by Admin | 11:38 AM

Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that, "Trustmark Life Insurance Company has proposed unreasonable health ...

Labels: Health Care Costs, Health Care Trend, Transprency

Posted by Admin | 6:30 AM

I call your attention to Ezra Klein’s column in the Washington Post this morning.In it he cites data that has been out there for a long time...

Labels: Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Care Trend, Paul Ryan Health Care Proposals, Single-Payer Systems

Posted by Admin | 11:44 AM

One of the things I enjoy the most about my travels across the country is meeting benefits brokers and health plan sales reps--they have the...

Labels: Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Care Trend, Health Savings Account

Posted by Admin | 5:00 AM

Analysts trying to predict the future of the health plan business who are looking for an underwriting cycle will miss the real turns in the ...

Labels: Health Care Costs, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 9:40 AM

The event I look forward to every year is "Wall Street Comes to Washington," Paul Ginsburg's (Center for Studying Health Syste...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 7:23 AM

Whenever the subject of Medicare physician fee payments comes up on this blog, the reaction from physicians, particularly primary care docs,...

Labels: Health Care Costs, Health Care Trend, Medicare, Primary Care Crisis

Posted by Admin | 12:35 PM

Here are some comments from a first quarter earnings call Coventry management would sure like to take back.Yesterday, Coventry reported that...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 11:41 AM

United Health's earnings and revenue grew by 7% this quarter year over year and the stock fell by almost 10% yesterday.I'd hate to s...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 1:00 PM

The recent hit HMO stocks have taken in the market has come because Wall Street has the jitters over revised earnings outlooks. Many health ...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend, Medicare Advantage

Posted by Admin | 2:00 PM

Maybe times have been just too good for so long that people have forgotten just what a challenging business this can be.After easy profits f...

Labels: Health Care Earnings, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 3:04 PM

Health care is considered a business that tends to be resistant to economic downturns. Brian Klepper returns with a post asking just what th...

Labels: Health Care Costs, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 2:38 PM

In today's Washington Post, Chris Lee has a story about lifetime maximums in health insurance policies. Sometimes, these caps are as lit...

Labels: Health Care Costs, Health Care Trend

Posted by Admin | 4:00 AM

Brian Klepper joins us again today and calls attention to four key trends in the marketplace, all targeted on improving both the cost and qu...

Labels: Health Care Costs, Health Care Trend