Life & Health

Although dealing with provider networks is wildly complex, there are concrete steps that employers can take to cut their medical costs.

"Bucketing" looks at the expense of drugs and treatments individually, not as part of the entire course of care, and inflates costs.

The ACA creates issues for provider networks, in their current configuration, but some simple strategies that build on PPOs can be effective.

Work gives us an identity. So disability programs that force people to say home until they are fully recovered can create unintended problems.

The "controversy" over whether to be vaccinated for measles is no controversy -- it derives from a completely discredited research hoax.

Hospitals are buying doctors' practices as part of a wide-scale consolidation, then adding huge charges to bills. You need to defend yourself.

Worst policy ever? Letting life insurance policy holders allocate funds based on week-old information may cost Aviva a big piece of its business.

Studies show huge overpayments for pharmaceuticals, but claims administrators have simple ways to end the problem.