A health insurance administrator, based in Maryland, is offering a new approach toward health and wellness, hoping it will bend the curve on health costs for its clients.

Nearly three-quarters (71%) of mid-sized to large companies intend to keep their health insurance plans in place for 2012, according to a new Towers Watson survey.

Insurance carriers need to improve if service fundamentals by “proactively” offer advice and provide customized options to employers if they are to increase employer satisfaction with health insurance plans, a new study suggests.

The majority of employers are taking a “wait and see” approach toward their employee benefits programs, delaying any action to respond to the likely reduction in plan design flexibility brought on by federal health reform, a new study finds.

A deal between Highmark Blue Shield and Geisinger Health System will enable Penn State University employees to continue in the PPOBlue Network.

About one-third of chief financial officers and senior comptrollers in the U.S. plan to cut health care benefits at their companies, according to a new Grant Thornton survey.

A collection of nine U.S. metropolitan areas, including five in California and Philadelphia, experienced higher than average increases in their health premiums for this plan year.

Aetna will replace Southern Health as the plan administrator of health insurance to the University of Virginia, starting Jan. 1, 2011, according to the university.

An employer in Raleigh, N.C., was arrested and charged with willfully terminating a group health plan, costing two employees a total of more than $2,000 in unpaid claims.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said he will sign legislation expanding Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) health benefits to employees laid off by small companies, following approval of the measure …  Read →