The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday the new health reform law will end limited medical plans - or mini-meds - in 2014. The department also released new rules for how these plans will be issued going forward.

Consumer-driven health care got another booth recently with the release of the latest study of health care claims and utilization by Aetna.

Fewer employees are placing a high priority on managing and improving their health, according to a recent Towers Watson survey of more than 9,000 large- and mid-size employees.

More than one-third of employees cite weight loss as a primary health concern in 2011, according to a ComPsych Corporation poll, while 23 percent of employees say stress is their top health issue.