When HSA Dollars Enter Direct Primary Care, Control Follows
When tax-advantaged dollars enter a care model, they do more than expand purchasing power. They reorganize incentives, accelerate intermediary involvement, and clarify who holds leverage.
HSAs And FSAs Were Designed to Give Consumers Control and Clarity of Their Healthcare Spending — Why Isn’t This Happening?
If HSAs and FSAs were functioning as originally intended, the rising out-of-pocket costs faced by most Americans would be met with increased financial fluency and agency.
How Artera is Using Agentic AI to Humanize Patient Care
Artera President Tom McIntyre talks about the practical application of AI in healthcare.
If We Treated Tooth Decay Like We Treat Heart Disease, We’d Save Billions
Oral diseases cost Americans almost $140 billion annually. What will it take to bring these costs down?
A Defining Moment for Employer Health Benefits: How the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Could Transform Healthcare for Employers
The "One Big Beautiful Bill" would codify Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs) — the personalized insurance model that has transformed how employers offer health benefits — into law as CHOICE Arrangements, or Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense arrangements.
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How to Improve Employee Benefits While Reducing Insurance Costs
Balancing healthcare benefits and insurance costs requires research. From becoming a Difference Card member to offering wellness resources, there are many ways to improve healthcare at low cost.
Starship brings gig economy focus to health savings accounts
Starship, a startup making Health Savings Accounts easier to use, has seen an influx of users since the start of the pandemic. In the first six months of 2020, the company saw 500% growth in active accounts and plans to double its membership again by the end of the year.
The New Blueprint: How Clever Care Health Plan is Scaling Its Member Experience [Video]
MedCity News was at the Vive conference and spoke with executives who shared their insights for the healthcare industry.
New IRS rule opens up preventive care coverage for chronic disease by high-deductible health plans
Applicable products and services include insulin, ACE inhibitors, inhaled corticosteroids, retinopathy screenings, glucometers, statins and SSRIs.
Amino adds health savings accounts to healthcare navigation business
"Hospitals have become debt collection businesses," Amino CEO and Cofounder David Vivero observed. He believes that integrating health savings accounts with the company's healthcare navigation tools is one way to address this issue.