Consumer Driven Health Care

As the cost of prescription drugs continue to rise, American consumers are seeking ways--some safer than others--to keep spending down.

Taylor Lindsey is a partner at Employee Benefit Consultants, but he is also the fourth-generation member of the firm and he is working to morph this highly-respected old-line agency into a totally modern value-based, data-driven firm.

There's of course the enormous expense of treating addicts, but opioids also burden the U.S. by taking workers out of the economy.

The move allows people with FSAs and HSAs to pay Amazon for out-of-pocket medical expenses with pretax dollars.

Prices for commercial health care in metropolitan areas are on the rise, but usage of care is falling in the same areas

OptumRX, UnitedHealth's PBM, will mandate that all new employer health-plan clients pass the drug discounts it obtains directly to plan participants.