Health Care Reform

Expensive stopgaps — including traveling nurses — caused hospitals' costs to rise.

Telemedicine will no doubt continue to play an expanded role in the health care system. Yet both practitioners and insurers should be aware of the potential for abuse of these telemedicine services and the criminal, civil and administrative ramifications.

Reproductive rights and benefits plan experts suggest plan sponsors move cautiously before converting individual actions and decisions into plan policies.

One of the biggest challenges we face is learning to filter out the noise and uncover what really matters.

Historically, oncology hasn't been a top priority for benefits managers due to its complexity, but increased health care spending is leading them to look to innovative solutions.

There's a long list of reasons why data ownership is a must, but these three should be enough to convince brokers and employers to take action.