Health insurance trends

Paying membership fees with pretax employer dollars held cost growth to 0.9% a year, but the numbers come with caveats physicians should know before pitching employers.

A critical flaw in the code behind most websites and a breach at one of the nation's largest lab companies landed in the same week. Here's what physicians should check, ask and tell patients now.

HFMA proposes ‘Declaration on Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability’ as physicians and patients feel the squeeze.

Prescription abandonment climbs sharply as out-of-pocket costs rise, and prior authorization delays push more patients away. Showing cost and coverage at the point of prescribing could change whether patients ever start therapy.

From opt-out handling and consent records to encryption and carrier registration, here's what a compliant patient texting system needs and the questions to ask before choosing a vendor.

Physicians have embraced ambient documentation faster than almost any technology before it. But every note it writes carries your signature, and lawyers, auditors and patients are starting to read those notes closely.

Physician groups in risk contracts often learn what they owe months or years after the fact. Medical Economics spoke with Najib Jai, M.D., MBA, chief operating officer of Arbital Health, about why settlements turn into disputes and how actuarial AI tracks contract performance while the year is still underway.

A Maryland pathologist and MedChi past president explains how all-or-nothing contracts, anti-steering clauses and private equity deals inflate costs. He also outlines the federal and state reforms that could restore competition.