The cost of prescription drugs has received a good deal of attention recently, driven in part by a spike is spending in 2014 and 2015. After several years of fairly low growth, per capita prescription drugs costs are estimated to …
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The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently updated their disease-based health spending estimates with new data that allows users to examine national health spending trends by disease category from 2000 – 2012. The BEA satellite account differs from the official …
Measuring the quality of healthcare in the U.S.
How can we know if the performance of the health system overall in the U.S. is good and if it is getting better or worse over time? Can a meaningful and reasonably understandable set of national quality measures be identified, …
A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model resulted in a net shared savings of $134 million in 2012 and $99 million in 2013.
ACOs were introduced into Medicare …
Health spending in the U.S. has grown at historically low levels since 2008, likely due to a combination of the economic downturn and slow recovery, as well as structural changes to the health system, such as higher deductibles in private …
Note: An updated collection of charts exploring infant mortality in the U.S. and comparable countries is available here.
Infant mortality rate (death within their first year of life) is a widely-utilized indicator of population health. Our new chart collection …
A new study examining the value of cancer care in the United States compared to Western Europe ignited a string of responses and discussion regarding the best way to measure the quality of cancer care.
The study by Samir Soneji …
In the U.S. and comparable countries there has been a reduction in disease burden, as measured by Disability Adjusted Life Years (or DALYs), in recent years. Our latest chart collection, which analyzes data from the Institute for Health Metrics and …
Medical spending among people with private coverage may continue to grow at relatively slow rates in 2016, according to the latest Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers report from PwC’s Health Research Institute.
Each year, PwC reports projected medical cost …
A study in the June 2015 issue of Health Affairs comparing wages of health sector employees to those of similarly qualified workers in other sectors found that although healthcare workers are paid only slightly more on average than their counterparts …