How Telemedicine, AI Are Transforming Care By Chuhan Wang It is exciting to see consumer-centric digital health companies providing broader access, better quality of care and greater efficiency.
Health Insurer Trickery Straps ER Patients By Sally Pipes Millions of emergency room patients could face financial ruin — even if they deliberately seek care at hospitals covered by their insurers.
How to Pick a Health Plan (Carefully) Prescription drugs need to be a major consideration because there is a massive difference in spending among different health plans.
EpiPen and the Prescription Crisis By Scott Martin The question is, whom to vilify for the pricing crisis: the manufacturer of the drugs or the American distribution channel?
Is the ACA Repeal Taking Shape? By Alan Katz Repealing the law outright would cause chaos in the health insurance marketplace and take coverage away from millions of consumers.
10 Ways to Fix Obamacare By Nick Gerhart We need a modern-day Manhattan Project to address healthcare — a focused initiative drawing on the best minds.
Why Healthcare Must Be Transparent Transparency is accelerating reductions in errors and accidents that kill or harm patients in hospitals, and much more is possible.
$2 Million Reward if Wellness Works! Does wellness save money? I say no. The industry says yes. The difference is that I'm backing up my claim by offering a $2 million reward.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.