Consumer Driven Health Care

The average per capita cost of health care services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased by 5.58 percent over the 12-months ending May 2011, according to data from Standard & Poor’s Healthcare Economic Composite Index.

The cost of medical care for people in employer-sponsored health plans rose at an annualized rate of 3.8 percent in the first quarter of 2011, according to the Thomson Reuters Healthcare Spending Index for Private Insurance.

While the wellness industry is evolving at an amazing rate, organizations continue to implement programs with little or no planning and goal setting on the front end. That's like showing up to a board of directors meeting and nobody has an agenda. Without carefully planning out goals and objectives of...

The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet.

If new law legislation introduced today becomes law, the days of the FSA “use it or lose it” rule could become a thing of the past.

Doctors are now urging women to get mammograms every year beginning at age 40, not at age 50 as previously recommended.