A Maryland health plan will be using emocha's mHealth app and platform to improve medication management for members living with type 2 diabetes.
Consumer Reports shows how you to save money and stay safe if you're on the hook for thousands in medical bills as part of a high-deductible health plan.
The growing use of HDHPs and CDHPs is further pushing employee engagement in making better healthcare decisions, with an additional increase in wellness program awareness and participation.
Health insurers are not sitting back and letting the opioid epidemic put a dent in their efforts to increase care quality and cut healthcare costs. Instead, they have designed holistic approaches t
Every health plan has to cover the basics, but some also cover alternative therapies such as acupuncture.
When we're given a choice about our health care plans, we often choose badly.
For too long most every decision about your health plan has been made with a gut feeling.
Employers are addressing low HDHP adoption by investing in education and support tools, but it’s time to go even further.
A new survey focused on high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) finds that consumers often have differing attitudes and approaches to their health care,…
If you have a high deductible health plan (HDHP) and end up needing emergency or planned surgery that puts you close to or over your deductible, consider what other procedures or care you can add on in that plan year, as Carolyn McClanahan explains for Forbes. “By approaching your medical care in a thoughtful manner, you may be able to ‘front load’ a bunch of care into one year and only need to meet one large deductible.”
Open enrollment can be confusing, but if you take these steps you can increase your odds of finding the right health plan.
Incentives might be part of your health plan, but employers and hospitals all are involved in promoting patient engagement.
Health plan accredidations provided by non-profit agencies can help payers showcase their ability to provide high-quality health plans to beneficiary groups and display other areas of plan excellence.
Launching an insurance company ensures narrow network capability and gives access to patient care information coming from a variety of disparate sources.
Unaware employers are losing hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars each year to ineligible health care dependents.
Benefitfocus' new Plan Modeling tool enables employers, brokers, advisors and third-party administrators to quickly and accurately evaluate changes to health plan design.
The most fundamental question facing hospitals and physicians in every community is this: Given the shift in accountability for costs from insurers to hospitals and physicians, does sponsoring a health plan make sense?
Read: 3 ways Health Plan Providers can leverage NLP technology for better customer care and business insights.
Reviewing your health insurance plan doesn’t have to be difficult and it can save you a lot of money