Consumer Driven Health Care

Maybe it's time to rethink the fractured systems used to keep track of health care providers.

In January 2021, the Blue Cross & Blue Shield Association will roll out a plan directing patients to providers based on quality and cost.

A recent study compared patients' out of pocket costs for behavioral health to conditions such as diabetes or congestive heart failure.

The Trump administration is also moving to require health insurers to post estimates of patients' real prices.

The statistic, cited by Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a recent Instagram post, might make her Medicare for All price tag more palatable.

Wall Street Journal terms the latest effort the "biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold in the health-care industry."