Employer-Paid

Out-of-pocket costs by patients with employer-sponsored health plans increased 10% from 2013 before the pandemic.

The proposed rule affirms protections against discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity.

Nationally, only about 1 in 10 workers have access to employer programs that cover some or all of the costs for child care services — either on the job site or off. The health sector seems to be doing more: About one-third of U.S. hospitals offer child care benefits.

U.S. health care consumers continue to struggle paying for medical care, even when they have received a cost estimate for a procedure in advance. Oftentimes,…

While climate change and the global pandemic are currently the crises at the forefront of conversations, child care in the U.S. has reached the level of crisis.

Claims and clinical data have become serious currency in health care, and health plans have increasingly treated this information as an asset to be monetized.