Newsroom
Read about our latest research, initiatives, announcements, and other news.
Optimizing Health Care Resource Allocation - The Research Consortium For Health Care Value Assessment
September 21, 2018 | Perspective
Traditional approaches to reducing health care spending often involve eroding coverage for care indiscriminately and fail to take a holistic perspective on all sources of costs and value. We believe that affordability in health care delivery is best achieved by efficiently allocating costs across the entire budget and spectrum of care.
Altarum and VBID Health Launch Consortium to Address Waste in Health Care
September 20, 2018 | Press Release
Altarum and VBID Health today announce the launch of the Research Consortium for Health Care Value Assessment, a PhRMA Foundation-funded initiative that brings together researchers working in health care value to collaborate, share findings, and develop research ideas to help address inefficiencies in health care.
Health Care Employment Accelerates as Health Spending Growth Remains Stable
September 14, 2018 | Press Release
At $3.67 trillion (seasonally adjusted annual rate), national health spending in July 2018 was 4.8 percent higher than it was in July 2017, and the health spending share of gross domestic product (GDP) was 17.8 percent.
Michigan Health Endowment Fund Partners with Altarum to Evaluate Behavioral Health Access for Michigan Residents
August 21, 2018 | Press Release
People living with mental illness or addiction die an average of 25 years earlier than the general population, yet many Michigan residents face barriers to critical treatment. The Michigan Health Endowment Fund (Health Fund) has commissioned a study to review and report on access to mental health and substance use disorder treatments for Michigan residents.
Revised Data Signal Accelerating Health Care Spending Growth
August 08, 2018 | Press Release
At $3.66 trillion (seasonally adjusted annual rate), national health spending in June 2018 was 5.2 percent higher than it was in June 2017, and the health spending share of gross domestic product (GDP) was 17.9 percent.
Financial Forecasting for MediCaring Communities
July 24, 2018 | Perspective
Imagine a meeting in your community — perhaps later this fall or next year — where you assemble a group of like-minded peers: health care providers, organizations offering supportive services, advocates, local leaders, policymakers and other interested stakeholders. You are calling them together because they all have an interest in improving the health and well-being of older adults in the area. Now, further imagine that at this meeting, you are aiming to craft a strategy that will establish, using current programs, a more efficient system of service delivery that reduces spending — in a way that keeps any resulting savings in the community.
Private Insurance Spending Now Growing Faster than Public Insurance Spending
July 18, 2018 | Press Release
New research from Altarum finds that spending and price growth among the privately-insured population accelerated in 2017 and early 2018 relative to Medicare and Medicaid, despite very low growth in private insurance enrollment.
Revised Spending Data and Gross Domestic Product Spurt Brings Health Share Down to 17.9%
June 15, 2018 | Press Release
While earlier data suggested a recent acceleration, with revised data, we estimate spending growth of 4.7% for the first four months of 2018, barely above the 4.6% rate seen for all of 2017.