There are few participants in the American healthcare system that offer rave reviews of its payment process. Providers (doctors, hospitals, etc.), payers (insurance companies) and members (patients) all...
New census data shows that U.S. household incomes rose for the third straight year, up 1.8 percent when adjusted for inflation. The Wall Street Journal...
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the day’s biggest payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes news about healthcare payments...
Digital technology is changing healthcare, from recordkeeping to disbursements, but the move away from analog is a journey that involves significant hurdles. Consider the ongoing...
The conventional wisdom in retail is that pricing is almost everything: Lob a discount, and the consumers will come. But recent research indicates that actually,...
We have come a long way from the days when patients in the U.S. did not have to foot all that much for healthcare —...
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest business target of Amazon, along...
Alphabet, the multinational conglomerate, has invested $375 million in Oscar Health, a health insurance startup co-founded by Trump advisor Jared Kushner’s brother, Joshua Kushner. CNBC reported...
Health insurance is something most consumers hope they never have to use, but when they do run into healthcare costs following medical treatment, they expect...