To fix the health care system, target price uniformity, transparency and technology, CEO David Ricks says.

In the four years since Maryland implemented a statewide system of pushing hospitals to lower admissions, savings are adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars for the taxpayers, employers and consumers.

The approach: Let the state contract with wholesalers in Canada, importing cheaper prescriptions from up north and distributing them to the states health care system.

With the price of a crucial diabetes drug skyrocketing, at least five states and a federal prosecutor are demanding information from insulin manufacturers and the pharmaceutical industrys financial middlemen.