Consumer Driven Health Care

With the price of GLP-1s reaching well over $1000 a month, local officials are warning that rising costs threaten to quickly drain government spending accounts.

The Value in Health Care Act would provide a 2-year extension of the 5% advanced payment model incentives, which allow clinicians to cover some of the costs of moving to a new payment model, including expanding care teams.

Alex Azar, former Health and Human Services secretary who approved of drug importation, is now chairman of the board of LifeScience Logistics, which is managing Florida's $39 million Canadian drug importation program.

The former South Carolina governor, who's now vying to be president, has become well known as one of the ACA's loudest critics, and is making her views known on abortion, vaccine mandates and other health care topics.

Value-based care, which focuses on quality of care and patient experience, kept patients healthier and lowered costs because they spent more time with their primary care doctors, according to Humana's 10th annual report.

With benefits slated as the second largest people expense for businesses, next to payroll, and health care costs across the nation estimated to escalate as much as 7%, here are 3 cost-saving solutions for the new year.

Industry leaders share their thoughts, comments, and concerns about the health care landscape and how it will affect their 2024.

The White House is cracking down on drugmakers that have raised the costs of their medications faster that the rate of inflation – another move in a series of price-fighting measures being rolled out under the Inflation Reduction Act.