Consumer Driven Health Care

The idea is broadly supported by health-care policy experts, but it's meeting resistance from two powerful forces.

Reference-based pricing plans can result in significant savings, but there are a few common concerns employers have when they first hear about self-insuring and reference-based pricing.

The Health Care Price Relief Act would create a committee to set health care reimbursements for providers in the private-insurance market serving employers and individuals.

UnitedHealth is betting that controlling many doctors can provide patients better care at a lower cost.

Further change can be expected, as calls grow louder for better health-care value for the dollar.

It's exciting for me. I get to practice what I preach. Better care; better outcomes.

CVS Health reported a drug price growth of just 0.2 percent last year, thanks to strategies that promoted low- or no-cost drugs for consumers.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb wants the tech industry to agree to reduce opioid availability online and to meet again in a year to review progress.