Report using private health claims data shows prices are driving health spending growth
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Report using private health claims data shows prices are driving health spending growth
Washington, DC Rising prices for care were the chief driver of health care costs for privately insured Americans in 2010, according to the first report from the newly formed Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI). The per capita spending on inpatient and outpatient facilities, professional procedures, and prescriptions drugs rose 3.3 ...
House Appropriations Committee releases draft report on FY13 State, Foreign Operations spending bill
The House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to mark up the FY 2013 State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill on Thursday, The Hill's "Global Affairs" blog reports.
House subcommittee approves FY13 U.S. international affairs spending bill without amendment
The House Appropriations State and Foreign Operations subcommittee on Wednesday approved, without changes, its version of the FY 2013 U.S. international affairs appropriations bill, Devex reports (Mungcal, 5/10).
Damaging consequences of potential spending cuts to medical research
The report "Sequestration: Health Research at the Breaking Point," released today by Research!America, demonstrates the damaging consequences of potential automatic spending cuts, or sequestration, to the nation's medical research enterprise and public health, and offers examples on how these cuts would delay scientific discoveries that could lead to new treatments ...
US Health Care Spending Linked To Higher Prices And Greater Use Of Medical Technology, Not More Doctor Visits Or Hospital Stays
The United States spends more on health care than 12 other industrialized countries yet does not provide "notably superior" care, according to a new study from The Commonwealth Fund. The U.S. spent nearly $8,000 per person in 2009 on health care services, while other countries in the study spent between ...
Oregon gets $1.9B to launch Medicaid Coordinated Care Organizations to try to cut health spending
The federal support will help Oregon's Medicaid Coordinated Care Organizations as they try to cut health costs by 2 percent over two years using preventive care to keep patients healthy.
Study confirms U.S. health spending far outpaces other industrialized nations
According to The Commonwealth Fund, the U.S. spends more than 12 other industrialized countries, but the care here is not necessarily better.
Health care quality varies widely despite high spending in the U.S.
The United States spends more on health care than 12 other industrialized countries yet does not provide "notably superior" care, according to a new study from The Commonwealth Fund.
U.S. Health Care Spending High, But Quality Lags: Report
THURSDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- Despite the fact that Americans spend more on their health care than citizens of 12 other developed nations, a new report finds that more does not necessarily equal better when it comes to quality of care. The Commonwealth Fund report, led by senior ...
Commission unveils plan to improve care, reduce health spending by $184 billion over the next decade
(Commonwealth Fund) Noting the "unprecedented opportunity" provided under the Affordable Care Act, the HITECH Act, and other recently enacted federal laws, the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System today unveiled a community-based plan to improve care for chronically ill patients and target quality improvement efforts to yield ...
MSF expresses concern over proposed FY13 spending reduction for PEPFAR
Medical aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has expressed concern over proposed cuts to PEPFAR under the White House FY 2013 budget proposal, "saying it will undermine the president's own goals" of "treating six million people infected with HIV around the world by the end of 2013," VOA News reports.