Average deductibles for employer-sponsored plans increased 10.1 percent, or $155, from 2015 to 2016, according to SHADAC, a health policy research center affiliated with Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
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Three major commercial payers saw their stock prices fall last week.
Thirty-nine percent of millennials believe it is important an employer offers life insurance, even though the majority plan to marry, have a family and purchase a home one day, a recent Anthem survey found.
Louisville, Ky.-based Humana is cutting 180 jobs in its home health division, Insider Louisville reports.
With median total compensation of $250,000 or more, medical professionals and certain specialists account for eight of the 15 top paying jobs held by LinkedIn members, according to an analysis from the professional networking site.
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As of Aug. 3, the median annual income for infection control staff nurses in the U.S. is $85,122, according to Salary.com.
One county in Ohio is lacking an insurer selling coverage on the ACA exchanges for 2018, down from CMS' June prediction of 49 counties, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
Indianapolis-based Anthem plans to withdraw 16 of 19 pricing regions of California's ACA exchange, leaving about 60,000 Covered California customers with one insurer choice for 2018, according to a California Healthline report.
Three of the five major commercial payers saw their stock prices rise last week.
CMS projects two U.S. counties will have no payers offering coverage on ACA marketplaces in 2018.