Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and Cambia Health Solutions said their deal to combine is on hold following recent revelations about the arrest of the North Carolina insurer’s chief executive for an allegedly alcohol-related traffic accident.
The Mount Carmel Health System announced it is raising its minimum wage to $15 starting in November. The pay raise will go into effect on November 24, 2019, and will impact 1,000 employees which include medical assistants, pharmacy technicians, phlebotomists, and environmental and nutrition service workers.
If you are American and you have health insurance, you probably get it from either your employer or some kind of government program. Or possibly both, if the government is your employer. Almost no one in the US gets health insurance on their own.
A new regulation by the Trump administration was supposed to create price transparency for health care consumers and allow them to more easily comparison shop for procedures. "Hospitals will be required to publish prices that reflect what people actually pay for services," President Donald Trump announced at a White House event in June.
Corporate misbehavior in the health-care sector is widespread: irresponsible opiate marketing, misrepresentation of research data, price gouging, and on and on. Some see it as capitalism run amok.
It's no secret that healthcare is expensive. In fact, medical debt is the No. 1 source of personal bankruptcy filings in the country. But new data from Bank of America's 2019 Workplace Benefits Report reveals a disturbing trend: Americans are ignoring their health to save money on medical care.