Medical Homes Change the Game On-site clinics have audited results showing they let employers attack both sides of the healthcare equation -- health and health costs.
Are Annual Physicals Really Worthless? How else will people get the screenings that are recommended by authorities and that have been shown to improve health and save lives?
Why Health Insurers Make People Ill If insurers simplified products and trained staff better, they could eliminate scads of customers tirades while saving tons on reps.
Big Disruption That Just Hit Healthcare An insurer has made providers' in-network pricing truly transparent -- finally! -- and the change will likely spread across the country.
How to Innovate Under Obamacare By Steve Spina A seldom-used feature known as the extended reporting period, or ERP, shows how it's possible to spot new trends and ride them.
Common Ground on Wellness? Not So Fast A prominent critic emails a prominent proponent to suggest a letter laying out the common ground -- but receives no reponse.
When Is It Right to Prescribe Opioids? By Don Teater Answer: very rarely. Even leaving aside the public health issues they create, opioids simply aren't very effective at treating pain.
Why People Don't Save for Retirement By Matt Page Companies should consider switching to auto-enrollment in retirement plans, because inertia keeps too many from signing up.
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.