Consumer Driven Health Care

Think smokings bad for your health? Its got nothing on your job.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has introduced a lot of new regulations. These changes require new paths to be paved especially surrounding the popular health reimbursement arrangements.

Drugstore chain Walgreen's fiscal second-quarter earnings climbed 11 percent, helped by contributions from European health and beauty retailer Alliance Boots, a business sale gain, and its new contract with Express Scripts Holding Co.

As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act turns three this week, the Obama administration is praising the law for slowing down health costs while providing more value for consumers.

More than half of hospitals nationwide (52 percent) say they plan to acquire physician practices in 2013 compared to 44 percent that made such purchases last year.

Wells Fargos HSA program assets grew by 31 percent, reaching more than $809 million by the end of 2012, while accounts grew to a record 365,000 at 2012 year-end, the banking giant said Thursday.