As an employee benefits attorney and compliance consultant, last summer’s executive order on “improving price and quality transparency in American healthcare to put patients first” piqued my interest.

As employers continue to experience unsustainable healthcare cost growth, a significant number are starting to embrace direct contracting with health systems to reduce healthcare spending and improve ...

Dr. Dave Rogers examines Jack Schloe, 5, on Tuesday Dec. 2, 2025, at Alpenglow Family Medicine, the direct primary care clinic that he founded. (The Gazette, Jerilee Bennett) In the Air Force, Dr.

American health care is too often overpriced, impersonal, and dysfunctional. Too many middlemen and regulations in the health care system are driving up costs, increasing complexity, burning out our ...

This article provides insight into health care purchaser priorities and considerations for direct contracting opportunities, along with considerations for interested accountable care organizations.