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Medicare and Private Insurance Health Care Prices Diverge Substantially in 2022
Read Altarum’s recent blog reviewing some of the underlying trends in health sector price growth, including a look at the different trajectories of private insurance and Medicare prices for health care services in 2022.
Read MoreInflation-Adjusted Health Care Spending is Falling for the First Time in Half a Century
The confluence of a slower rebound in health care expenditures alongside rapid economywide inflation has resulted in a surprising reversal in health care’s real spending growth over the past year.
Read MoreIn Health Affairs Forefront, Altarum Outlines Key Provisions Affecting Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans
Sarah Barth and Michael Monson's article in Health Affairs Forefront outlines three key provisions that provide opportunities to states as they adapt to support meaningful dual integration and oversight of D-SNPs.
Read MoreIn Health Affairs Forefront, Altarum Offers Maternal and Child Health Example as Case for Coordination to Bridge Gap Between Health Care and Public Health
Altarum experts use their deep experience in Title V and Medicaid to offer breakthrough ideas for enhanced collaboration between Title V MCH Block Grant and Medicaid.
Read MoreJune 2022 Health Sector Economic Indicators Briefs
National health spending is declining as a share of GDP, health care price growth remains well below economywide inflation, and health employment continues to show moderate growth.
Read MoreVirginia’s Health Care Sector Economic Trends in 2020
Altarum experts apply their HSEI framework to provide the first comprehensive picture of 2020 health economic data for Virginia—including spending by health components and payers, employment trends, private insurance costs, and federal government support.
Read MoreAltarum to Evaluate the National Hypertension Control Initiative
In support of up to 150 health centers participating in the initiative, Altarum and partner Arbor Research Collaborative for Health have been awarded a 27-month contract by the HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) to provide training, technical assistance, measurement, and evaluation services.
Read MoreExplaining Near-Record Health Spending Growth during the 2020 Decline in Health Care Utilization
In 2020 Americans reduced their use of healthcare services as they postponed elective care and avoided in-person visits, yet new CMS expenditure data show health spending increased by a near-record 9.7%. We explore what drove this.
Read MoreDecember 2021 Health Sector Economic Indicators Briefs
In this month’s Health Sector Economic Indicators briefs, we incorporate new CMS health expenditure data for 2020 and show the impact of federal spending on near-record growth, while healthcare prices rise slightly and 2021's labor trends persist.
Read MoreAltarum Leads Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s New Early Childhood Systems Technical Assistance and Coordination Center
The program supports states and non-profit organizations as they build integrated maternal and early childhood comprehensive systems of care that are equitable, sustainable, and inclusive of the health system.
Read MoreNew Alzheimer’s Drug is Projected to Increase National Health Expenditures by More Than One Percent
Altarum's experts explore how a new Alzheimer’s drug could increase national health expenditures by more than one percent.
Read MoreExploring PACE's Pandemic Response Offers an Opportunity for Broader LTSS Insights
Altarum social psychologist Christine Stanik writes how limited data to inform policy and practice of PACE has hindered wider expansion of the eldercare model. Now a new funding opportunity from AHRQ has opened the door for Altarum to conduct the most thorough analysis of PACE innovations to date.
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