Bruce Japsen

For the first time in nearly a decade, the game plan of the managed-care industry's lobby is shifting to offense from defense. The American Association of Health Plans, which represents...

An increasing number of states are turning to a Downers Grove-based company for help with reining in their prescription drug budgets. First Health Group Corp. manages drug benefits in nine...

The big news earlier this week that only 30,000 genes make up a human has not excited the drug industry nearly as much as the proteins these genes are making....

If a patients' bill of rights opens up self-insured companies to liability, an increasing number of employers say they're more likely to drop health plans for their workers, according to...

A new health insurance company is attempting to cure what ails the managed-care industry by marketing a health plan owned by medical professionals. So far, Concert Health Plan has attracted...

Harmony Health Plan of Illinois Inc. is expanding its Medicaid managed-care business into northwest Indiana in a move that could boost the Chicago-based insurer's number of enrollees in a short...

It's easy to like a tax cut when Alan Greenspan says it's OK. On Thursday the chairman of the Federal Reserve reversed himself, at least a little, by telling the...

Abbott Laboratories is poised to take a leap into direct-to-consumer television advertising with its proposed acquisition of BASF AG's Knoll Pharmaceuticals unit. When it comes to hawking drugs on television,...

By blowing the whistle on itself, one of Chicago's largest hospitals saved a bundle on its fraud settlement with the federal government. Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center used a 1999...

A longtime physician and the marketing head at a now-defunct South Side hospital were charged Wednesday with recruiting hundreds of homeless people, drug addicts and others to be admitted and...