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Healthcare costs keep many tied to their jobs. A new decentralized model could expand access to care and improve equity for entrepreneurs, gig workers and employees.

UnitedHealthcare, Kaiser Permanente and other major U.S. health insurers say they want to make it faster and easier for patients to obtain care. Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade association that ...

Few people realize how worthwhile appealing a denied health-insurance claim can be. Insurers in the U.S. process more than five billion payment claims annually, federal figures show. About 850 million ...

To find the best health insurance companies, we evaluated nine insurers across 35 criteria, including costs, customer ...

Navigating the mental health insurance process can be difficult from start to finish, but there are ways to make it easier, says Joe Feldman, president and founder of nonprofit organization Cover My ...

It’s currently the open enrollment period, when people choose what health insurance they’ll have for the next year. But the process can often be overwhelming. “It's confusing for everybody,” Peter ...

MOBILE, ALA.—Not long ago, Dr. Richard Menger, a neurosurgeon, was ready to operate on a 16-year-old with complex scoliosis. A team of doctors had spent months preparing for the surgery, consulting ...