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Health Care

Amazon-Backed Health Venture to Shut Down

The Haven venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan apparently ran into logistical problems after promising to disrupt corporate health care.

Matthew Heller
January 5, 2021
Medicare
Health Benefits

Health Care Questions CFOs Should Ask and Expect An Answer To

Digging into the hidden mechanisms of your organization’s health care coverage can present opportunities for savings.
Health Benefits

7 Ways COVID-19 Will Transform Health Care

The pandemic could promote disruptive innovation to lower costs, but it will take pressure from the business community to make it happen.
Health Benefits

Health Benefit Costs Seen Rising 8.1% in 2021

The coronavirus had "a major impact" on slowing medical cost growth this year but the trend "is expected to be short-lived," a survey finds.
Health Benefits

The Health Care Backlog Is a $52B Problem

The backlog in unaddressed care will cause a surge in demand that will hit the health care system quickly and inefficiently.
Health Benefits

How CFOs Can Help Control Health Care Costs

CFOs should challenge HR leaders on whether employees can afford costlier benefits, promote provider differentiation, and negotiate health care contracts.
Health Benefits

Threat of Health Care ‘Cadillac Tax’ Set to Vanish

Congress, White House include a repeal of the excise tax in 2020 funding legislation that's expected to be signed into law by Friday.
Health Benefits

Teladoc Buys Livongo in Telemedicine Mega-Deal

The $18.5 billion merger underscores the growth potential of telemedicine as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates the use of virtual health platforms.
Health Benefits

To Better Manage Health Care Costs, Ditch the Silos

Addressing medical, pharmacy, disability, and workers' compensation programs separately interferes with companies' efforts to control health care costs.
Health Benefits

What I Wish I’d Known About Health Care as a CFO

Here are four ways to rein in health care expenses while still providing quality benefits to employees.
Health Benefits

Execs Could Boost Profits by Owning Health Care

Judging by their apathy over fixing the health care cost problem, C-suiters apparently are comfortable the way things are, a health care executive says.
Health Benefits

Companies Move to Limit Employees’ Health Costs

Most large and midsize employers hit "pause" on requiring workers to pay more out-of-pocket for health services.
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