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The pending merger between CVS Health Corp. and Aetna Inc.their grand experimentstands to disrupt current health care models in more ways than one, experts say.

While 92 percent of employers say that severe skills shortages in their industries are weighing on productivity, employee satisfaction and turnover, the actual reason may have more to do with pay than skills.

Telehealth providers have been lobbying for years to be able to break into the Medicare market, but this year they might actually succeed.

For all that PBMs do to reduce costs and improve the quality of pharmacy benefits, it is important to understand that employers, unions and government programs are in the drivers seat.

Wanted: Chief executive for health-care startup. Must be able to reinvent an industry, reduce spiraling costs and improve care for one million people -- and possibly the entire nation.

Eleven million employed adults are expected to come down with the flu this year resulting in an average of four days of missed work each and an accumulated $9 billion in lost productivity.