It's becoming increasingly clear that if forced to choose between changing consumer or provider incentives, we should focus mostly on the providers.

A promising experiment aimed at reducing health care costs through changes to the payment system delivered underwhelming early results, but there's more to the story.

Consumer-driven health care may have some benefits, but it doesn't come close to a doctor-driven approach.

A major driver of high drug prices is the lack of value consciousness on the part of prescribing physicians.

Further change can be expected, as calls grow louder for better health-care value for the dollar.

. In 2017, more than half of all insured American workers had health insurance with a deductible exceeding $1,000 thats almost twice as many as had such policies when Obamacare passed. But thats not all thats changed.

A team of researchers examined what happens when hundreds of thousands of people are given access to a website that provides prices for various medical procedures.