Consumer Driven Health Care

While the shroud of price secrecy within the health care industry has made real transparency unattainable, recent developments are forcing change.

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.