Salt Lake City, Utah-based HealthEquity acquired health savings account (HSA) administrator First Horizon Msaver from First Tennessee Bank National Association for an undisclosed amount.

Independence Blue Cross is introducing Blue Solutions, a group of 25 new health care plans for small businesses, available Oct. 1.

Six years after they became available, Health Savings Accounts appear to have been accepted as a mainstream health care option, according to a new survey from HSA Bank.

The number of people who are covered by Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) has reached 10 million, spurred in part by strong growth in the large-group market, according to America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).

CIGNA unveiled a new website for insurance brokers who sell health benefit plans to companies with 50 to 250 employees, to help determine which funding option will best fit their clients’ needs.

Reading, Pa.-based First HSA has contracted with a Draper, Utah, firm to serve as the custodian and payment transaction processor for 43,000 health savings account holders and on future accounts.

Limits on contributions and low interest rates mean the role of health savings accounts (HSAs) in saving for health care costs in retirement will be “minor,” according to a new report.

A record percentage of workers took an active role in choosing their health care benefits during the open enrollment season for this plan year, but most chose to stick with the plans they had in place for last year, according to Hewitt Associates, a consultancy.

While President Barack Obama plans to include Republican ideas into a comprehensive health care reform plan he wants approved by Congress, not everyone is ready to jump on board.

Health benefit costs rose at a greater rate in Virginia than in the nation in 2009, new research indicates.