Consumer Driven Health Care

An artificial intelligence algorithm can screen for diabetic retinopathy, an innovation that puts ophthalmology alongside radiology, cardiology, and dermatology as specialties in which AI innovation is happening fast.

The PWFA requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees, however, the final rule provides clarification for "reasonable accommodations," such as time off for health care appointments and abortions.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' final rule aims to stop brokers from steering beneficiaries to certain plans in exchange for higher reimbursement from insurers, while giving them more predictable compensation.

A lawsuit filed Friday outlines a moneymaking scheme by which large insurance sales agency call centers bought names of people who responded to misleading ads touting free government "subsidies."

In a recent speech, President Biden overstated the average monthly cost that patients were paying prior to the Inflation Reduction Act: The out-of-pocket cost for insulin was $58 for a 30-day supply, says a HHS report.

Novo Nordisk's list price for a monthly package of Ozempic is $935.77 before insurance and other rebates, yet it can be manufactured for between $0.89 to $4.73 a month, according to researchers at Yale University.

Increasingly, health system consolidations, which must balance short-term and long-term financial goals, are focused on value-based care, which promotes better care for patients and improved health outcomes at reduced prices.

The Biden administration has announced that it has finalized a new regulation that curbs the use of short-term health insurance plans that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act, limiting the plans to 90 days.