There are 9 article(s) tagged Health insurance:

• December 2025

  • Opinion: Rising health care costs will be breaking point for many Memphians

    “Sometime next year, unless Congress changes course, health insurance is going to become a lot more expensive for hundreds of thousands of people in Tennessee.”

    By G. Scott Morris December 07, 2025

• December 2022

  • BlueCross BlueShield hopes to land deal with Methodist by new year

    BlueCross says Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare charges significantly higher rates than other facilities in the Memphis area, and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital charges the highest rates of any children’s hospital in the state. 

    By Aisling Mäki December 12, 2022

• May 2022

  • New state law should give patients better access to medication doctors prescribe

    Insurance companies often require patients to try other, perhaps less effective, treatments before covering what is prescribed by their doctor. 

    By Aisling Mäki May 13, 2022

• March 2021

  • Opinion: Fill a prescription. Or buy a house.

    The shot I’m getting is hard to get, and costs more than our first house. The stuff in this syringe must come from cells scraped from the belly of the dragon Smaug by Hobbits.

    By Dan Conaway March 12, 2021

• April 2020

  • Q&A: Health insurance coverage in the time of COVID-19

    Employers and employees alike have questions – and answers are rapidly changing.

    By Tim Finnell April 06, 2020

• June 2019

  • Collierville student to advocate in D.C. for diabetes research funding

    A sophomore at Collierville High School is traveling to Washington this summer to level with legislators about the high cost that comes with living with Type 1 diabetes. 

    By Michelle Corbet June 16, 2019

  • Spa-like health clinic to open in former Lululemon location

    The switch from store to clinic not only demonstrates a change in retail, but a trend in health care as well. 

    By Michelle Corbet June 13, 2019

• May 2019

  • Health insurance company strives to change outcomes by supporting nonprofits

    UnitedHealthcare is striving to improve the health of its members by giving $1 million in grants to seven area nonprofits to address the social determinants of health. 

    By Michelle Corbet May 13, 2019

• January 2019

  • Area employers make mental health benefits a priority for 2019

    Local employers are working together to ensure their employee health benefit plans offer the same affordability and access to mental health services as they do to primary care. 

    By Michelle Corbet January 16, 2019