3 Key Points on Value-Based Care By Lori Mallory Value-based healthcare is here to stay, and it changes everything for every healthcare-related client.
'It’s Life, Jim, but Not As We Know It' (Part 2) By Onno Bloemers Sophie Reynvaan Can you make buying insurance something that customers actively engage in? Yes, if you understand how they think.
Dissecting Landmark Decision on Wellness By Al Lewis AARP's win over the EEOC may actually be a windfall for employers with wellness programs that use heavy incentives.
2017 Deplorables Awards — Runners Up By Al Lewis In the immortal words of the great philosopher LL Cool J, some wellness companies lied about the lies they lied about.
Stents Provide a Lesson on Healthcare By Al Lewis They often provide no benefit, but half a million procedures a year occur (at $20,000 apiece) because of healthcare's flawed financial structure.
Challenging Drugs' Moonshot Price Tags By Pramod John Drugs can be wildly expensive, while doing little. The solution: doctors who prescribe as if they’re the patient, using their own money.
IRS Set to Nail Employers on ACA By Cynthia Marcotte Stamer Many employers assume an executive order insulates them against the employer mandate and other penalties; the IRS disagrees.
Drug Discount Plan Actually Lifts Costs By Sally Pipes A well-intended program to give discounted prescription drugs to poor Americans creates perverse incentives and hurts healthcare quality.
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.