Higher prices, less help and a government shutdown all hang over health insurance markets as shoppers start looking for coverage this week. The annual enrollment window for millions of people to pick an individual plan opens Saturday in nearly all states ...

Learn how gatekeepers in healthcare manage patient access to treatments, reduce costs, and function in health insurance and long-term care insurance.

Nearly half of Americans have resolved to save more money in 2026. Unfortunately, many of those New Year’s resolutions are dead on arrival due to skyrocketing health insurance premiums that, starting this month,

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Two new reports out this month show the burden of health care insurance is only worsening for employers, with high ...

Researchers at Rice University — Vivian Ho, professor and chair of health economics, and Salpy Kanimian a Ph.D. candidate in economics — took on an interesting topic: why healthcare insurance premiums have risen nearly three times the rate of worker ...

Leaving your job means more than just leaving your employer. It also means leaving behind your benefits, like a work-sponsored health insurance plan. You have more than a few options for health insurance coverage when you leave your job, including signing ...

Over the past century, the proportion of health-care services purchased through insurance—as opposed to directly by patients—has surged, thanks to the exemption of employer-sponsored benefits from income and payroll taxes. This has encouraged a great ...

Massachusetts regulators would eliminate many prior authorization rules, speed urgent approvals and form a working group to tackle rising health-care costs.

Thanks for government intervention, the US healthcare system has been breaking down. Unfortunately, with each healthcare setback, the prescription is for more