Businesses warm to 'pay or play' healthcare
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California and New York City ponder making some employers pay for insurance - or help government do it.
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The purchase of big public companies by private-equity firms, like this summer's acquisition of hospital giant HCA Corp. , come prepackaged with a standard win-win spin.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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Health-care initiatives will be a big part of the company's future.
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A group of the nationâs largest for-profit hospital chains plan to propose that individuals be required to have basic health coverage.
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In the long run, happy patients make happy shareholders.
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Onus is on workers to buy health insurance as rising costs force firms to end perk.
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Retirees who receive health benefits from their former employers saw premiums shoot up an average of 25 percent this year, a new study says.
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In an attempt to extend health coverage to uninsured workers, 60 large employers are joining together to sponsor an array of low-cost health insurance options.
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The fall can be an anxious time for employees, as companies hold their annual open enrollment periods and invite workers to choose benefits from a complex range of health insurance, disability coverage, and retirement savings alternatives.
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Some of the biggest U.S. employers said on Wednesday that health care coverage and retirement plans for American workers should be delivered by competing third-party benefit administrators such as banks, investment companies and insurers.
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There are many other treatment options for people with arthritis, and physicians are considering them patient by patient. Washington -- Physicians are pulling out their risk-versus-benefit calculators once
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A chill is in the air for hospitals accustomed to having insurers pay ever higher prices for hospital services. That era appears to be ending.
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Union leaders may be thinking about the health system in ways more sophisticated and businesslike than many chief executives.
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Part-time workers, contractors, and early retirees who usually wouldn't qualify for corporate health insurance could get coverage under a plan unveiled yesterday by a consortium of dozens of large companies.
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Hospitals will be allowed to claim for the cost of treating people injured at work, under plans being considered.
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As insurers, employers and average Americans grapple with skyrocketing health care bills, a study being published today has found that a small number of illnesses -- many of them preventable