Consumer Driven Health Care

Benefits professionals have put a colossal amount of effort into deciding which health care approaches will deliver the best value care.

In his short time on the job, Azar has embraced many of Obama's objectives around lowering costs and improving quality, but with a Trumpian impatience to upend the established order.

The passage of the Affordable Care Act led many employers to embrace self-funding plans to guard against rising costs.

We discuss why it has been impossible for consumers to shop for health care in much the same way they shop for most everything else in their lives and highlight solutions that are coming to market.

In the four years since Maryland implemented a statewide system of pushing hospitals to lower admissions, savings are adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars for the taxpayers, employers and consumers.

Ongoing shifts have motivated many expert advisors, thought leaders, and health care entrepreneurs to seek better ways to deliver health care to employees, with the goal of reducing costs for the employer and the employee while improving care delivery and outcomes.