Consumer Driven Health Care

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Treasury Department are seeking patient input to bolster efforts to safeguard consumers from medical debt and collections.

The ability for health care providers to capture clinical findings, make diagnoses, and quickly align with the most effective evidence-based directives – through mountains of data – delivers an optimal care plan and manages costs.

On Monday, the health care giant reported that hackers stole personal information, including patient names and dates of birth, and posted it on a data breach forum.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, won't hold a hearing on nomination of Dr. Monica Bertagnolli for National Institutes of Health director until Biden offers a drug price plan.

Medicare is planning to send lump-sum payments to more than 1,600 hospitals that participate in a drug discount program after the Supreme Court found the pay cuts to be unlawful in June.

Los Angeles County was allocated $6.3 million from Janssen, the pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, while Knox County, a rural Kentucky county in Appalachia — considered ground zero of the crisis — received $45,395.