Consumer Driven Health Care

The Wells Fargo plan paid almost $10,000 for a generic pill for multiple sclerosis that Wegmans pharmacies sold for $648, according to the complaint, driving up premiums and out-of-pocket costs.

In the year since the Federal Reserve brought interest rates to a more than two-decade high, the central bank has succeeded in taking the steam off of an overheated US economy. But higher borrowing costs have also had some unexpected effects.

"A 1% increase in health care prices caused by a hospital merger lowers both payroll and the number of employees at firms outside the health sector by approximately 0.4%," according to the study.

Ranking cost, access, and health outcomes across all 50 states and Washington D.C.

But the new GLP-1 agonist obesity and diabetes fighters took up more rungs on Milliman's list of top cash eaters.

But a rating agency expects the new weight loss drugs to reduce spending on bariatric surgery.