Cost sharing could be undermined if small employers with relatively healthy workers and dependents are able to stay out of the Small Business Health Options Program or health insurance exchanges.

Healthcare costs easily outpaced the 3% growth in overall inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for 2011, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. One healthcare economist says ...Read More

The exchange—a data and communications system that allows insurers, hospitals and patients to share patient data electronically—is first being installed at WPAHS hospitals and,...Read More

Competition within the health insurance industry could potentially increase now that consumer-governed health plans have received a big financial boost to get them up and running. The Centers for...Read More

Aetna is facing a federal lawsuit from an Army veteran who claims the insurance company was wrong to use an "acts-of-war" exclusion to deny coverage for his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...Read More

Although the health insurance industry has maintained a relatively low profile regarding the Obama administration's recent amending of its contraception coverage , the industry, in private, is...Read More

More and more Missouri consumers are looking for less expensive options for basic individual health care coverage and are asking what they can do to save on cost for their family’s health care coverage. Often consumers don’t reach their health care coverage deductible, so Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Anthem) has introduced an enhanced Deductible Credit Program on select individual health...Read More

WellPoint, Inc, (NYSE: WLP) today was named one of the Top 50 Companies for Executive Women by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE). The NAFE Top Companies lead corporate America in recruiting, retaining and advancing women.

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