Consumer Driven Health Care

The Department of Veterans Affairs is talking about broadening the role of private-sector health care in providing care for veterans, with the goal of eliminating of the need for veterans to go through the VA to approve or coordinate care.

The opioid epidemic sweeping the U.S. is far costlier than once thought, with the economic impact of the crisis exceeding half a trillion dollars, according to a new report by White House economists.

Massachusetts state Medicaid program hopes to road-test an idea both radical and market-driven: it wants the power to negotiate discounts for the drugs it purchases and to exclude drugs with limited treatment value.

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Nearly a quarter of older adults in the U.S. said that in the past year they had not visited a doctor when sick, skipped a recommended test or treatment, not filled a prescription or skipped medication doses because of the cost.

According to a new analysis from Altarum, $21.4 billion of that total was spent on treating patients who suffer from opioid abuse.