LiveMed Brings Digital Human Touch By Rick Huckstep LiveMed uses video technology for "face-to-face" meetings that cut costs, boost convenience and eliminate errors.
New Way to Lower Healthcare Costs By David Contorno Open heart surgery at a beautiful, modern facility an hour from Miami costs $1,400 -- vs. the average of $324,000 in the U.S.
Why Doctors Don’t Trust Insurers By Chris Phillips Among many reasons, doctors feel that health insurance providers don't let them provide the absolute best care to patients.
Federal Court OKs Huge Wellness Fines By Al Lewis In a little-noticed decision, a federal court allowed employers to impose 100% fines on employees who won't participate in wellness programs.
Selling Life Insurance to Digital Consumers By Jennifer Fitzgerald After a year of learning about selling life insurance onlilne, the CEO of PolicyGenius offers six takeaways that can benefit all brokers and agents.
Walmart's Approach to Health Insurance By Tom Emerick Walmart's Centers of Excellence Program is the best model we have for health coverage. It has been great for Walmart -- and for employees.
The PBM vs. the Drug Manufacturer By Scott Martin As drug prices show, our healthcare system is broken by design – not necessity – and virtually everyone in the chain lacks the incentive to fix it.
Payments to Providers Must Be Reformed By Tom Emerick Carriers and healthcare providers have no incentives to curb fee-for-service payments. Self-insured employers must lead the way.
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.
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.