Consistent with the approach taken by other alternative payment models, GUIDE frames the emergency department as a negative ...

Community health needs assessments identify key health needs and issues, but historically have not included sufficient data ...

Thomas C. Buchmueller ([email protected]) is the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Helen G.

According to data from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, total health spending on the privately insured in the United States increased in real terms by nearly 20 percent from 2007 to 2014. 1 ...

More than a dozen years after its enactment, policy and legal disputes related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remain.

Most states have taken a one-size-fits-all (or one-size-fits-most) approach to designing integrated care models for their ...

The stable share of GDP devoted to health care reported in 2023 NHE data masks important underlying trends: Commercial prices ...

National health care spending reached $4.9 trillion in 2023 (or $14,570 per person), increasing 7.5 percent from 2022 ().This rate of growth was faster than in 2021 and 2022, when health care ...

State employee health plans are consuming an ever-larger portion of state budgets because of rising health insurance premiums. Often the largest purchaser of commercial health insurance in their ...

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The 2023 national health care spending study's authors, who are with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Office of the Actuary, discussed the CMS data with members of the news media. The ...