At first, consumers weren’t bothered by the steep climb in healthcare costs, because their employers were covering their services. If they needed emergency care, all they had to do was meet their $500 deductible and their employer-provided health care plan would take care of the...
Orbita CEO Bill Rogers has a relative with dementia. As dementia patients often do, she repeats a lot of the same questions, and it drives her aging husband crazy. But there’s someone who’s happy to answer those questions as many times as she asks, and...
What do health savings accounts (HSA) or flexible spending accounts (FSA) do for consumers? Most of the people who have one couldn’t tell you. They don’t know what their benefits are. They don’t know how to access them. They don’t know the limits of their...
February 24, 2021
High deductible health plans with health savings accounts (HSAs) are an increasingly common feature among American healthcare consumers, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2017, roughly 20 percent of Americans had such plans. As of 2019, the last year data is available, 26 percent of consumers had them. They are even more […]
March 21, 2018
At first, consumers weren’t bothered by the steep climb in healthcare costs, because their employers were covering their services. If they needed emergency care, all they had to do was...
