Consumer Driven Health Care

The concept of patient advocacy isnt new, but current trends are shining a spotlight on the growing need for this critical service.

Drugmakers said in prepared remarks that insurers, pharmacy-benefit managers and hospitals, among others, keep a large chunk of the money Americans spend on medicine and dont pass on savings to patients.

An analysis of Medicare Fee-for-Service claims data shows a substantial shift in site of care for outpatient drug therapies from the physician office to the hospital outpatient setting from 2008 to 2015.

The insurance industry can do a better job of ensuring that we are as closely aligned as possible to the latest in medicine to help pay more claims.

According to a study from Project: Time Off, only about a quarter of employees actually disconnect from email and other work-related tech tools on vacation.

The decline of government welfare creates opportunities for governments, employers and private insurers to form partnerships to extend social protection, using fiscal incentives to attract new customers.