Employers: Don't Pay for 'Never Events' By Al Lewis A key way to save on healthcare costs (while helping employees): Use hospitals that take responsibility for the costs of "never events."
3 Tips for Improving Healthcare Literacy By Andy Neary Hint: Using newsletters to communicate your new cost-containment solution will not work because your employees will not read them.
Risks of Malpractice Claims (Video) By Erik Leander Richard Anderson Does spending more on tests reduce malpractice claims? Doctors believe so, but the data is confusing.
5 Reasons Doctors Are 'Non-Standard' By Jackie Johnston It can be difficult for non-standard physicians to find affordable malpractice coverage because they are considered a higher risk.
Obamacare: Where Do We Stand Today? By Tom Emerick David Toomey While it’s hard to dispute the benefits of insurance for everyone, we still must cut the cost of healthcare.
How to Stop Unneeded Medical Tests (Video) By Richard Anderson Erik Leander How should physicians respond to patients who request unnecessary medical tests? Here are some tips.
Transparent Reinsurance for Health By Hugh Carter Donahue Transparent reinsurance programs to address health insurance could emerge as significant opportunities.
Healthcare Quality: How to Define It By Tom Emerick David Toomey How do we move beyond the marketing campaigns to understand healthcare suppliers’ performance?
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.