Your insurer could know a lot more than just what’s on your application form. It’s worth understanding where this information comes from and how it can be used.
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People could take a genetic test to gauge their future risk of disease without worrying their life insurers would penalise them.
Australia has a comprehensive national database on property-level flood risk. But it is currently proprietary, meaning the public can’t access this valuable information.
As the middlemen between drug companies and insurers, PBMs are shoo-ins as the villains behind high drug prices. But they do play a useful role in the health marketplace.
Insurers in many ways are the face of US health care, which may help explain the public reaction to the murder of an insurance executive.
A health policy researcher explains how doctors determine their pay rates, and the system that lets them do it.
Even if you’re well covered, your area may struggle long after a disaster if most locals don’t have enough home and/or contents insurance. Search our map by postcode or suburb name to check your area.
Health researchers hope a new regulation requiring hospitals to post their prices will tame soaring health care costs, but compliance and standardization are hurdles.
New payment models may mean more of the people who need these treatments can get them.
One interviewee in our study described having compiled a database of more than 150 interactions with insurers or their representatives over the two months since they were caught up in a disaster.
Increasingly severe losses for insurers due to climate change could result in a global financial crisis.
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