Consumer Driven Health Care

If health care payers are going to make good on their recent commitment to accelerate decision timelines, increase transparency and expand access to affordable, quality care, they are going to need to infuse their utilization management operations with powerful AI tools.

Currently, the U.S. health care system has high rates of health spending and poor health outcomes, relative to other countries.

Criticism of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of Health and Human Services, is growing in the wake of contentious congressional hearings about vaccine policy and staff upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"The HSA market is a function of new employment, job growth, people being able to move between jobs," Scott Cutler, the chief executive officer of HealthEquity.

Medications are essential to billions of lives daily, but they can be dangerous when mismanaged. Employers have the power and responsibility to protect lives and budgets by getting medications right.

Consulting actuaries at Milliman have surprising news for Americans saving for retirement: The typical cost of paying for acute health care after age 65 might be falling.