Consumer Driven Health Care

Doctors used to be concerned about patients who didn't have insurance not paying their bills. Now they're scrambling to get paid by those with insurance.

Health care providers are using TV advertisements to attract lucrative patients into their hospitals as health care costs and industry competition escalate.

Pramod John, our guest on this episode, is CEO of Vivio Health, which is singularly focused on using outcomes revealed by data and analytics to bend the hockey-stick curve of this spending trend.

The complaint alleges that Walgreens and CVS, two of the state's largest opioid distributors, failed in their duties under Florida law to stop suspicious orders of opioids.

Companies actually have a lot of control in managing costs; it isn't easy, but it can be done.

Maryland has the lowest regional health care costs, and Colorado has the highest. And their approaches to health care transparency are very different.