Consumer Driven Health Care

Health care organizations next year will more than likely work on tweaking the technologies that offer immediate ROI, according to SCIO Health Analytics Predictions in 2018.

Mark Gaunya and Jennifer Borislow continue their discussion from last episode about why health care is so expensive and share their ideas to slow rising prices.

Since the first rheumatoid arthritis drug came to market a decade ago, nearly a dozen have been added. If basic economics prevailed, RA treatments and patients would have benefited from competition. But that hasn't been the case.

Brokers, carriers and politicians have written and spoken volumes about the status of health care benefits in 2017.

According to CDC research, from 2005-2014, cancers associated with being overweight or obese rose 7 percent while those not associated with those conditions experienced a 13 percent drop.

Whats ahead for the benefits industry in 2018? There are several trends that will affect benefits professionals in the coming year.