Consumer Driven Health Care

Integrating medical, behavioral and pharmacy benefits under one provider can save employers$ 193 annually per employee.

It's becoming increasingly clear that if forced to choose between changing consumer or provider incentives, we should focus mostly on the providers.

Following five years of relatively modest cost growth, more employers are forgoing the short-term savings offered by cost-shifting and turning to strategies addressing care delivery and health management.

Crowdfunding has become a popular strategy to pay expensive medical bills, but the practice raises ethical, moral, privacy, and political issues as well.

The opinions of consumers are playing an increasing role in how health systems decide on improvements to patient care and experience.

Drugmakers are constantly searching for patients for clinical trials and pay hospitals handsomely to test their medicines.