May 10, 2012
The Kaiser Family Foundation has released an updated primer on health care spending in the United States that reviews the growth in health care spending since 1970 and the impact of health care costs on families and employers. The share...
Apr 24, 2012
The Medicare Board of Trustees on April 23 estimated the program's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will remain solvent until 2024, the same year it projected last year. The fund’s assets are projected to cover annual deficits through 2023, with asset...
Apr 23, 2012
More than one in four U.S. working-age adults experienced a gap in health insurance coverage during 2011, often because they lost or changed jobs, according to a new Commonwealth Fund survey. Nearly seven in 10 adults lacked coverage for a...
Apr 19, 2012
Hospitals are doing their part to temper increases in health care spending through, among other things, evidence-based best practices to improve value without compromising the quality of care and working more closely with physicians and other providers, American Hospital Association...
Apr 11, 2012
Increasing Medicare payments for primary ambulatory care "can help bend the Medicare cost curve," according to a recent report by the Commonwealth Fund. Researchers from the Center for Studying Health System Change modeled the effect a permanent 10% increase in...
Mar 30, 2012
Death rates from all cancers combined continued to decline between 2004 and 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported March 28. According to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, new cancer diagnoses...
Feb 9, 2012
The aging of the country's population and the rise in health care costs will continue to be the nation's biggest economic challenge, concluded the Congressional Budget Office's latest economic outlook. The cost of government health care programs will more than...
Feb 3, 2012
Hospitals spend an average of 11.3% of their total expenses on benefits to their communities, according to a new report by Ernst & Young. Based on data from 571 filed Schedule H forms representing approximately 900 not-for-profit hospitals for tax...
Jan 25, 2012
Unemployed adults are more likely to be uninsured and in poor health than those with jobs, and less likely to receive needed medical care and prescriptions, according to a report released Jan. 24 by the Centers for Disease Control and...
Jan 23, 2012
An additional 83,000 jobs could be lost if Congress enacts nearly $20 billion in Medicare cuts to funding for hospital care included in H.R. 3630, House-passed legislation extending the Social Security tax holiday, unemployment insurance and the physician fix, according...
