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Insurance & Financial Services

New study projects health-care costs to increase more slowly

Projected cost increases for all types of medical plans are expected to be down by between 0.1 percent and 0.5 percent in 2014, according to the 28th National Health Care Trend Survey by Buck Consultants, a unit of Xerox (NYSE: XRX).  This continues the trend of slower increases since 2010, the survey found. Still, cost […]

CDPHP, Independent Health form ‘strategic alliance’

Capital District Physicians Health Plan (CDPHP), an Albany–based health insurer with subscribers in Central New York, on May 20 announced a “strategic alliance” with a health insurer based in Western New York. CDPHP will work with Independent Health, which is headquartered in the Buffalo suburb of Williamsville, to “explore opportunities to enhance their efforts to

NFIB Research Foundation: Health-insurance tax to cost 152,000 to 286,000 private-sector jobs

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Research Foundation recently released an updated study showing what it says are the “significant number of jobs” that will be lost by the national health-insurance tax (HIT) that is part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Using independent cost estimates, the Research Foundation’s BSIM (business-size impact module) predicts the rise in cost

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