Cost-Containment

Under the draft regulations, a general business group in a multi-state metropolitan area could offer an AHP for all of its member employers, regardless of what industry the employers were in.

Consolidation, the widespread adoption of voluntary benefits, new tools for transparency, and innovations like reference-based pricing are all part of a rapidly changing industry.

The Department of Labor has announced a new proposed rule to allow small businesses and self-employed people to band together to purchase insurance plans that are not subject to many of the Obamacare requirements.

According to the Justice Department, Kmart offered discounted generic drug prices to cash-paying customers, but didnt disclose those cheaper prices when reporting the drugs usual and customary prices to Medicare.

The Pew Charitable Trusts recently outlined the quietly building demand that undocumented workers will place on the health care system as they age.

. In 2017, more than half of all insured American workers had health insurance with a deductible exceeding $1,000 thats almost twice as many as had such policies when Obamacare passed. But thats not all thats changed.