Consumer Driven Health Care

Another year, another obesity study. Only this years annual Nutritional Examination report from the geeks at the CDC drops in a good news, bad news sorta way.

New research by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services indicates that including comprehensive tobacco cessation benefits in Medicaid insurance coverage can result in substantial savings for Medicaid programs.

When you shop for any other product outside of this category, you can compare prices, whether it is for buying car insurance, homeowners coverage or tires. Why doesnt health care provide the same opportunity?

HealthSpring Inc. shareholders have approved the insurer's planned acquisition by larger managed care provider Cigna Corp., moving the two companies closer to completing the deal.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (and echoing Miley Cyrus), theres a constant party in the USA. Not only do adults binge drink more frequently than ever but they consume more drinks when they do.

Few things make me feel as clueless as a bill from my doctor's office.

CVS Caremark says it will pay $5 million to resolve allegations that one of its subsidiaries understated the price of several drugs on a Medicare website.

Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday.