Patty Enrado

MINNEAPOLIS – Consumer-directed health plans, or CDHPs, have garnered a lot of attention and growth in the last couple of years, but industry experts say the market is still untapped....

WASHINGTON – A U.S. Treasury Department regulation released in August has clarified tax provisions that allow employees to make contributions toward the cost of individual health plans and pay f...

BENTONVILLE, AK – Critics agree that the changes Wal-Mart has made in its 2008 healthcare benefits for associates are an improvement. But there are far more inherent problems with the...

DETROIT – By all accounts, General Motors’ agreement to contribute $29.9 million to the United Auto Workers’ healthcare trust constitutes the largest upfront funding in the history o...

Voluntary employee benefit associations, or VEBAs, have been around since the late 1920s, but the size of General Motors' contribution to the healthcare trusts for the United Auto Workers, or UAW, is...

CLEVELAND – Pricing transparency and the increasing rise of self-pay are making significant impacts on cash flow management for hospitals and large physician practices, experts say....

AUGUSTA, ME – Dana Connors, president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, was looking for a way to help member businesses deal with the staggering need for and cost of healthcare. He found a...

NEW ROCHELLE, NY – New York’s Westchester County Department of Health is ditching an eight-page, paper-based application that residents have filled out to enroll for public health...

SAN FRANCISCO – Blue Shield of California (BSC) and Kaiser Permanente studies have shown that their respective home-based care coordination programs have delivered a clear return on inves...

CINCINNATI – Bloomington, Ind., and Clark and Champaign counties in Ohio announced the launch of their community health information exchanges, or HIEs, in September. By leveragi...