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The cost of the opioid crisis exceeded $95 billion in 2016, according to analysis recently released by Altarum, underscoring the importance of swift investment in evidence-based interventions.
Total health spending growth in September was 4.3% higher compared to a year earlier primarily due to slow growth in hospital spending.
Most states fail to provide consumers with the information they need to make informed health care choices and even fewer provide data on the price and quality of care together, according to a report by independent nonprofit organizations Altarum and Catal
These reports, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provide a monthly summary of key trends in health care spending, prices, utilization, and employment.
Monograph of Altarum's 7th annual sustainable health spending symposium, which took place on July 18, 2017 in Washington DC.
Fueled by health policy uncertainty and structural health sector changes, health care price growth in August rose by only 1.2% compared to a year earlier.
These reports, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provide a monthly summary of key trends in health care spending, prices, utilization, and employment.
This month's Health Sector Economic Indicator Briefs show a leveling off of the hiring jump experienced in the last few months, as well as continued slow price and spending growth.