Consumer Driven Health Care

New York City's Board of Health on Wednesday approved a rule on posting warnings for food containing high levels of salt.

Pushing back against criticism of the increasingly common narrow network system, CVS recently released a study stating that people take their medication more regularly after switching from a non-network plan to a narrow network.

The Gout and Uric Acid Society is trying to raise awareness of an important health data point that it says is misunderstood and ignored.

A survey from the Center for Disease Control found that the number of people who avoided needed medical care because of its cost decreased from 6.9 percent in 2010 to 4.4. percent in 2015.

Just like insurance companies and public health programs, prisons worry that health services might be over-used if the people they serve don't have skin in the game.

Critics say that doctors "cherry-pick" the most profitable patients while leaving poorer patients with more complicated needs to other hospitals. A study published in the British Medical Journal, however, suggests that the critics are wrong.