Consumer Driven Health Care

The effects of COVID-19 can still be felt in Sun Life's most recent report.

During the Consumer Financial Protection Board hearing, panelists identified deferred interest credit cards as a prime culprit saddling patients, who tap financing for "gaps" in health care coverage, with medical debt.

The hospital chain, which announced last week that the breach affected 11 million patients, "knew or should have known" that the private information it collects is "highly sought after by criminal parties," plaintiffs wrote in one complaint filed last week.

Behavioral health startup Octave, which aims to expand access and reduce costs, plans to fill the large unmet need for in-network behavioral health services, including adult individual, couples and family therapy with virtual and in-person services.

Excessive drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic increased alcoholic liver disease deaths so much that the condition killed more Californians than car accidents or breast cancer, according to KFF.

Baylor Scott & White, the largest not-for-profit health care provider in Texas, will now become one of the state's largest urgent care providers with the NextCare Urgent Care partnership.