Consumer Driven Health Care

Nearly 20 million Americans are covered by health savings account-eligible insurance plans, AHIP says.

Theyre still not performing as badly as major cable companies, but health insurers are receiving mediocre marks at best from American consumers.

Insurance underwriters are rallying around New York consumers who have lost their coverage due to the collapse of Health Republic of New York.

In what is being billed as an important step away from the fee-for-service health care system, the Obama administration announced an outcome-based measure of compensating medical providers for performing hip or knee replacements on Medicare patients.

The FDA is beginning to regulate how genetic testing companies market DNA tests for health insights, saying that genetic tests can establish paternity or indicate rare diseases, but for heart disease or diabetes, their value is less clear.

When it comes to their value as tax-deferred savings instruments, health savings accounts are a triple threat.