Consumer Driven Health Care

In a BenefitsPRO Broker Expo keynote presentation, the health futurist and medical economist said health care will change more in the next five years than it did in the last 50 years.

In a BenefitsPRO Broker Expo panel discussion, industry leaders offered their perspective on how direct primary care and reference-based pricing can work together to deliver a cost-effective benefit plan.

Conflicts arise when insurers send checks to pay for out-of-network medical services to patients rather than reimbursing a medical provider directly.

A panel of licensed health care professionals preferred ChatGPT's responses nearly 80% of the time and rated the chatbot's responses as higher quality and more empathetic, in a new JAMA study.

Whether it's planning for future health care needs or managing medical expenses, a higher number of workers with high deductible health plans are opening health savings accounts, according to Fidelity.

The insurer did not give an explanation for the reversal of coverage for a midwife, leaving a couple with no recourse after exhausting all processes within the claims processing, including a formal appeal, which was denied.