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More employers are giving workers the option to tame health insurance costs for next year if they provide a blood sample and reveal details about their health habits.
Shares of Walgreen Co. tumbled Tuesday, as investor concerns over the fate of a multibillion-dollar contract outweighed a jump in the drugstore operator's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings.
Consumers may catch a little break when their health insurance policies renew. Lower-than-expected use of health care has helped push insurer earnings higher and that may temper how much they increase premiums.
Don't take a health insurer's rejection as the final word on your medical claim.
The last few years tested executives in almost any corner of corporate America, thanks to a brutal recession and a slow recovery.
A new health care overhaul mandate that once stirred fear among insurers is proving to be challenging — but not too challenging — as it makes its debut in 2011.
Nearly half of Americans lack dental insurance, and every visit carries the threat of a bill for thousands of dollars.
The market for long-term care insurance grew even more foreboding for some consumers last year when big insurers announced sizeable premium hikes.
Humana Inc.'s stock tumbled Thursday after the health insurer forecast 2011 earnings to slip by about a dollar per share from this year due primarily to less favorable trends for its crucial Medicare business.
A new drug being developed by Merck & Co. could follow Lipitor as the next mega-blockbuster cholesterol drug, if it clears several important hurdles.
INDIANAPOLIS — The use of health care services tumbled in the third quarter, helping insurers report better-than-expected earnings and raise their 2010 profit forecasts.
The costs that dictate employer-provided health insurance plans will climb more than 10 percent within the next 12 months, and financially pressured companies may pass more of this increase along to their workers through next year's benefits plans, according to an Aon Consulting report.
Workers are paying a larger portion of their health insurance costs as businesses shift more of the burden to their employees to help ride out the economic downturn, an annual study shows.
Health care reform hits another milestone next month, with new provisions that include a coverage expansion for young adults and restrictions on an insurer's ability to impose annual coverage limits or to reject children with pre-existing medical conditions.
Last fall's swine flu scare has helped health insurer profits in this year's second quarter by preventing expensive medical claims and creating healthy amounts of unspent reserves.
People who buy their own health insurance have been hit lately with premium hikes that far exceed increases in premiums for employer-sponsored coverage, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Companies that offer employee health insurance expect another steep jump in medical costs next year, and more will ask workers to share a bigger chunk of the expense, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report.
An association charged with shaping a key insurance regulation as part of health care reform has told the Obama administration it needs some more time.
Paying for surgery these days requires more than pulling out your insurance card and hoping for the best, even for those with good insurance. Doing a little homework can help you save money in some cases and avoid surprises when bills arrive in the weeks after a procedure.
WellPoint Inc. abruptly ended a contentious annual meeting of the insurer's shareholders Tuesday after a company director collapsed.
The brother of former President George H.W. Bush collapsed during health insurer WellPoint Inc.'s annual meeting Tuesday morning, abruptly ending a gathering that had grown testy with criticism from some shareholders.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said having insurers as "good partners" is part of health care reform, but she made no promises Friday to tone down criticism of an industry the Obama administration has attacked repeatedly.
The most valuable college graduation gift your child receives this spring might come from a health insurer.
Several health insurers said Wednesday they plan an early start on a slice of health care reform by pledging to limit the circumstances in which they cancel coverage when a customer gets sick.
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