Compared to similar countries, the United States has higher rates of mortality for most of the leading causes of death, and generally performs worse on a variety of quality indicators. Diabetes and endocrine diseases are no exception. There has been …
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This collection of charts and a related brief explore trends in health outcomes, quality of care, and treatment costs for people with diabetes and related endocrine disorders. Endocrine diseases occur when any of the eight major glands in the endocrine …
Health spending is very concentrated among a small portion of the population, with 50% of spending focused on the top 5% of spenders in any one year.
With so much spending concentrated among a few very sick people, efforts to …
The largest pharmacy benefits manager in the U.S. recently released its annual 2014 Drug Trend Report, indicating the biggest jump in prescription drug spending since 2003.
According to Express Scripts, prescription drug spending jumped 13.1% from 2013 to 2014. The …