Cost-Containment

It might ring like some kind of campaign rhetoric you might hear on the stump in a battleground state like Ohio, but it's true: Even though they're barely 11 years old, consumer driven health plans are our future.

Several Republican-sponsored bills targeting government employee unions appear stalled in the Arizona Senate, a week after one such measure was approved.

New York's State Senate will not wait for Washington's go-ahead to restore a commuter benefit that allows workers to save more pre-tax money for their transit expenses.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s fourth-quarter profit sank 34 percent as an acquisition by the world's largest generic drug maker improved revenue but raised expenses.

Medco is partnering with pharmacy software company NovoLogix to create a new medical benefit management program that is supposed to help control costs for expensive specialty drugs, which are used to treat rare or complex medical conditions.

The case of a man who was stuck with a $14,419 bill that he calls inflated and unreasonable after three days of care in a Charlotte hospital is going to be heard by the North Carolina Supreme Court.