Market Insights

The patient-centered medical home model is part of the ongoing trend toward coordinated care and faces many of the same challenges.

More employers are bending to the need to be competitive with their benefits offerings, becoming less concerned with reducing costs.

Deeply indebted companies or those with medicines that are heavily used by Medicare recipients or subject to rebating may be most exposed.

Acquiring companies tend to miscalculate several of the challenges of integrating companies, but these issues are solvable.

UnitedHealth fell 3 percent at 10:30 a.m. in New York. Its competitor Anthem was down 4.8 percent, and Cigna slid 3.1 percent.

Two studies highlight the challenges and opportunities for medical professionals implementing telemedicine.