Consumer Driven Health Care

Researchers at the University of Minnesota studied financial data from 2012 to 2015 and found that the percentage of low-income, nonelderly adults with unpaid medical bills dropped twice as much in states that expanded Medicaid than those that didn't.

Seizing on the Trump administrations deregulation drive, corporate lobbyists are pushing to override state laws on ingredient-disclosure rules and warning labels, including landmark California legislation on potential cancer risks.

People looking for health care coverage arent using price transparency tools to shop around for cheaper providers. Instead, says a new study, they use them to plan for out-of-pocket expenses.

A new breed of start-ups is trying to lead customers through the labyrinth of medical billing. Each has taken on a different aspect of billing helping patients file claims, scanning bills for errors or making charges easier to understand.

Although the concept behind Direct Primary Care (DPC) is more than 10 years old, more and more physicians are opting out of the insurance-based world for a practice model that is old-fashioned but in the best sense of the word.

A U.S. government program meant to improve medical care and cut costs by penalizing hospitals that repeatedly readmit people with heart failure may have instead increased the risk that the patients would die, a new study suggests.

Nearly one in four seniors describe reviewing their Medicare plan annually as among the top two most unpleasant activities, including getting a colonoscopy.

Laws designed to equalize out-of-pocket costs faced by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy whether treated intravenously, with pills or liquid doses are having mixed results, according to new research.