Consumer Driven Health Care

The first step is understanding the factors driving this ongoing upward cost trend, like specialty drugs, then conducting an audit of all current benefits offerings to help identify underutilized programs.

Concern over health care costs among older adults remains high across political affiliations, although there are notable variations.

In the first settlement with any health insurer over allegations of fraud tied to Medicare's prescription drug contracting plan, Humana settled the whistleblower suit "without admitting any wrongdoing," said the insurer.

Catastrophic claims and specialty prescription drugs are contributing to the increase.

Cost Plus works directly with drug manufacturers to bypass middle men and lower prices.

The lawsuit asks the court to postpone implementation of the rule, which is set to take place in November.