Consumer Driven Health Care

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.

The rise in overall spending within the U.S. health care sector has been muted, due mainly to hospitals trying to control increasing costs.