Consumer Driven Health Care

That time of year when thoughts turn sullen at the end of summer, hopeful (or stressed) at the approaching holidays and frantic at the start of another enrollment season.

As the notion of value-based payment has taken hold in the health care marketthe concept that health care providers should be paid according to the quality of care they offer, as opposed to today's fee-for-service payment methodinsurers, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to commercial payers, have had...

PPACA had set a $2,500 annual limit to FSAs, but the law also specified that the limit would increase to match the rise in the consumer price index starting in 2014.

Cigna Corp. raised its profit forecast for the year as it added more customers to its health insurance plans.

For those of you who (still) follow me regularly or even sporadically youll know how hard the holidays were for me last year.

WellPoint and other insurers are adding customers as people buy insurance through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the law that requires all Americans to have health insurance and provides subsidies and online shopping markets for them to do so.