Consumer Driven Health Care

Through the Rural Health Clinic Accreditation Program, rural health clinics now have a framework to standardize the quality of primary care, focusing on emergency preparedness, infection control and patient rights.

Forty-five percent of Gen Z employees are participating in high-deductible plans this year.

While shortages of the popular weight loss drugs persist, Hims & Hers, a San Francisco-based telehealth company, will offer access to a compounded form of the GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, starting at $199 a month.

Almost 20% had to choose between health care or paying a bill, while 14% had difficulty affording a prescription.

CFPB officials questions whether late medical bill payments have much to do with how well people pay their other bills.

Of those that currently offer coverage only for diabetes, 19% are considering offering the drugs for weight loss as well.