Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 percent, ...

Douglas M. Long, BA, MBA, was featured as the keynote speaker on the closing day of The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy 2024 annual meeting, with a session dedicated to surveying the health care and ...

Prevalence surveys in U.S. hospitals showed that on any given day, 1 of 25 patients had a health care–associated infection in 2011, as compared with 1 of 31 patients in 2015. We repeated the survey in ...

Health care spending in the US reached $5.3 trillion and increased 7.2 percent in 2024, similar to growth of 7.4 percent in 2023, as increased demand for health care influenced this two-year trend. As ...

2023 was a year of checked recovery for a hospital sector coming off its lowest point of pandemic financial pressures. Providers welcomed back a stream of patients that remained below pre-pandemic ...

Insurers of qualified health plans (QHPs) sold on Healthcare.gov denied an average of 20% of all claims in 2023 – 19% of in-network claims and 37% of out-of-network claims, finds a new KFF survey. The ...

This month, the WBJ's Excellence in Health Care series returns. Meet and read about the honorees below. You can find previous 2023 standouts here: August 2023: Excellence in Health Care June 2023: ...