Consumer Driven Health Care

As employers continue to look for ways to cut health care costs and improve consumerism among the work force, consumer-directed health plans, and health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts, are expected to remain strong in 2012.

Companies that were bailed out during the financial crisis still owe U.S. taxpayers nearly $133 billion. Treasury's plans to recoup that money have been slowed by the volatile stock market and weakness among smaller banks.

More Americans lack health coverage today than they did four years ago, according to findings released Tuesday by Gallup.

It's not just cancer. Now some of the nuts-and-bolts tests given during checkups or hospital visits are getting a second look, too.

Independence Blue Cross and Health Dialog, a provider of health care analytics and decision support, is collaborating on a new pilot program that will offer health coaching to people with chronic illnesses to help them stay well and out of the hospital.

After a period of substantial decline, the global abortion rate has stalled but unsafe abortions are on the rise around the world, according to new research from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization.

WellPoint Inc. will become the second big health insurer to tell investors how it wrapped up 2011 and whether health care use remains subdued when it reports on its fourth-quarter performance Wednesday.

In a BenefitsPro exclusive, AIG announced the merger of two of the carrier giants two benefits divisions into a single new business unit, AIG Benefit Solutions.