Consumer Driven Health Care

By aligning employers, providers and health plans around shared goals, benefits advisors can help reshape a spiraling system, incentivize quality and improve affordability.

Two Republican lawmakers sent a letter to the FDA commissioner, seeking a staff-level briefing on the short supply of 128 drugs, including "life-supporting medications" that treat infections, heart failure and cancer, by Nov. 9.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized rules on Thursday with sweeping implications for providers, including Medicare reimbursement rates for hospital outpatient sites and doctor's offices.

The retailer has partnered with mobile medical services company DocGo to deploy mobile clinics catering to those who want urgent or primary care and takes private insurance as well as Medicaid and Medicare.

The Department of Health and Human Services will create an artificial intelligence task force to regulate the use of AI-enabled technologies already in use in hospitals, insurance companies and other health care businesses.

In recent years, a modest number of small- and medium-size employers have set up their own health clinics to fill employees' primary care needs at or near their workplaces - something large employers have done for decades.