Health insurer AmeriHealth New Jersey is entering the “defined contribution” health plan market, where employers give their workers a set amount of money — a defined contribution — that employees then ...
Economist Peter Orszag, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget, writes in Bloomberg Businessweek that, over the next decade, defined contribution health plans will gradually take ...
Oct. 25--Highmark Inc. has opened the defined-contribution pool. But are small Pittsburgh-area employers ready to take the plunge? The region's biggest health insurer is expanding its "defined ...
I think defined contribution health care is a productive tool that has a lot of potential to make consumers more careful purchasers and health plans more cost effective sellers of insurance—when it is ...
WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alegeus Technologies, the market leader in healthcare and benefit payments, today released the results of an original market research survey – commissioned by Alegeus, ...
Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...
As health care costs resume their seemingly inexorable climb, the latest buzzwords making the rounds of employers are "defined contribution health benefits." If you've heard the term "defined ...
<span>Independence Blue Cross of Philadelphia announced a new defined contribution health plan designed to help small businesses control their health-care budgets ...