Consumer Driven Health Care

With cancer continuing to be a top driver of high-cost claims, it's no surprise that cancer drugs make up over half of Sun Life's top 20 high-cost injectable drugs for 2022.

Considering the vital role of the work-life relationship in worker effectiveness, wellbeing, and long-term commitment, employers, brokers and TPAs should prioritize it across all facets of their operations, including their benefits programs.

Several recent trends have had a profound impact on how consumers work, choose whether to change jobs and the ways they access health care.

Once the pandemic subsided, there was a spike in gene therapy approvals, with four therapies released in 2022, which sent a clear message that the Food and Drug Administration is reshifting its focus to progressive therapies, such as a new therapeutic treatment of glaucoma.

In response to the country's workplace mental health crisis, new programs are looking to take support a step further providing employees with in person, virtual and self-directed formats along with care navigators to help them in their ever-evolving mental health journey.

Hospital system pricing is closely related to mergers and acquisitions, as consolidations drive up already inordinate health care costs, according to the attorney general of North Carolina, where health care is a leading cause of personal debt.