Broker Regulation

Technology, workplace flexibility and increased awareness of generational differences continued to be important issues for HR professionals and brokers in 2017.

The pharma industrys biggest trade group boosted revenue by nearly a fourth last year and spread the millions collected among hundreds of lobbyists, politicians and patient groups.

As hospital companies struggle to make money providing medical care, they are turning to the profitable and growing business of collecting debt.

As insurers wait to see the vote outcome on the Republican tax bill, and its provision for the repeal of the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, theyre already trying to calculate the rate at which theyll have to raise premiums to keep themselves solvent

For months now, pharmacy and health benefits companies have fretted that theyre the next targets of Jeff Bezoss disruption steamroller, but Amazon hasnt yet figured out how to shake up a notoriously complex business.

Doctors blame holdups in getting the treatment paid for by Medicare and Medicaid, the two giant U.S. government health programs, as well as some of the U.S.s largest insurers.