Consumer Driven Health Care

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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.

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.