Are You a Corporate Warrior?
Maintaining health and wellness takes commitment and employers should be playing an active role.
Need Health-Care Advice? Send Your Doctor a Text or Email
Self diagnosis has become a lot easier with the Internet, but that doesn't mean we are becoming healthier.
Workplace Burnout Affects Your Health, Here’s how Avoid It
Going to work early Monday morning can be hard, but if you are finding an excuse not to go to work or feel unchallenged, you might be burned out. Here's are the symptoms of workplace burnout and how to combat them.
Cheap Labor 2.0: America’s Self-Employment Crisis
More and more of us are opting to work for ourselves than someone else – and we’re becoming far less productive in the process.
When the Smartest Guy in the Room Proves He’s Also…the Dumbest
Ever heard the expression "high IQ, low EQ?" It refers to someone who is intellectually smart, but emotionally dumb. That sums up Jonathan Gruber’s problem
28 Delays, and Counting, to Health Reform
For the second time in about a year, the Obama administration gave companies, including small businesses, more time before they must offer affordable health insurance to almost all their full-time workers or pay a tax.
CFOs Prepared to Pass Health Care Burden Onto Customers
U.S. finance chiefs are mostly ready to deal with widespread health reform and are prepared to shift some expense burdens onto employees and customers.
The New Obamacare Red Herring
Beware of a new argument from health reform backers that people are seeing policies canceled due to "ordinary turnover" in individual and small group plans.
The President’s Healthcare Gamble
Obama gambled one-sixth of the U.S. economy that he could convince young people to sign up for something that they didn't want. His gamble didn't -- and won't -- work.
Pharma analysts see little threat from Clinton plan to rein-in drug costs
Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan to rein in prescription drug prices by reshaping how drugmakers do business is being met by skepticism within the industry.
AIG Profit Lifted by AerCap, China Investment; Raises Buyback
Insurer American International Group Inc (NYSE:AIG) reported a 5.6 percent jump in quarterly operating profit, driven by investments in one of China's biggest insurers and earnings from aircraft leasing company AerCap.
Fast-paced changes in drugs for hepatitis C seen as harbinger of rising US health care costs
The $1,000 pill for a liver-wasting viral infection that made headlines last year is no longer the favorite of patients and doctors.
Aetna Agrees to Buy Humana for $34.1 Billion
Aetna Inc. said Friday that it had agreed to buy Humana Inc. for $34.1 billion in cash and stock, following weeks of frenzied merger talks among the largest health insurers.
Medicare panel: Ease rules on rehab coverage for seniors after hospital 'observation' stays
A panel that advises Congress on Medicare policy says the government should make it easier for seniors to get covered for rehab after a short hospital stay.
Wolf, attorney general ask court to enforce UPMC, Highmark agreement, force arbitration
Gov. Tom Wolf and the state attorney general want the Commonwealth Court to force the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and rival Highmark Inc. into arbitration to settle lingering disputes.
US jumps into whistleblower cases that accuse nursing-home chain of overbilling Medicare
The Justice Department said Tuesday that it is stepping into a long-running lawsuit against one of the nation's largest nursing-home chains, accusing it of systematic Medicare overbilling and sometimes putting frail, dying patients through arduous rehab schedules just to increase revenue.
3 former employees sue AIDS Healthcare Foundation, allege kickbacks in $20M Medicare scam
The nation's largest suppliers of HIV and AIDS medical care is accused of bilking Medicare and Medicaid in an elaborate $20 million dollar scam that spanned 12-states, according to a lawsuit filed in South Florida federal court.
Insurer Aetna gets discounts, gives preference to Gilead's hepatitis C drugs over AbbVie's
Insurer Aetna has made new hepatitis C drugs from Gilead Sciences Inc. preferred treatments for customers with the liver-destroying virus.
Walgreens will offer prescription help for consumers struggling with health insurance overhaul
Walgreens, the largest drugstore chain in the U.S., said Tuesday it will offer prescriptions at no upfront cost to some patients who are working on getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
4 Medicare Advantage Shopping Tips
Early December may be the least wonderful time of the year for Medicare Advantage customers who still haven't settled on coverage plans for 2015.







