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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.
Health Care Jobs Engine Propels Share of Total Jobs to All-Time High
May 11, 2018 | Press Release
In April 2018, the health care sector added 24,400 new jobs, consistent with the 12-month average of 25,500 new jobs per month, but enough to propel the health share of total U.S. jobs to 10.76%, a new all-time high. Hospitals added 8,000 jobs in April, and ambulatory settings such as physician offices and home health added 16,900 new jobs.
Health Care Prices and Spending Accelerating
April 13, 2018 | Press Release
In March 2018, the Health Care Price Index rose by 2.2% compared to the previous year, fractionally higher than in February, and the highest rate since January 2012. Driving overall price acceleration is high hospital price growth of 3.7%, barely down from 3.8% in February—a more than 8-year high.
Health Care Spending Growth and Its Share of Economy Exhibit Remarkable Stability
March 26, 2018 | Press Release
Altarum's latest Health Sector Economic Indicators provide a second look at spending for the entire 2017 calendar year and suggest that national health spending grew by 4.6% from its 2016 level.
Economic Toll of Opioid Crisis in U.S. Exceeded $1 Trillion Since 2001
February 13, 2018 | Press Release
The cost of the country’s opioid crisis is estimated to have exceeded $1 trillion from 2001 to 2017, and is projected to cost an additional $500 billion by 2020, according to analysis released today by Altarum, a nonprofit health research and consulting institute.
2017 National Health Spending Growth Estimated at 4.7 Percent
February 13, 2018 | Press Release
National health spending rose 4.7 percent in 2017, slightly above GDP, but keeping its share of GDP at 18 percent, according to Altarum’s latest Health Sector Economic Indicators Briefs.
Altarum Introduces MIPScast™: A Scoring Tool that Helps Clinicians Achieve the Highest Possible Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Scores
January 23, 2018 | Press Release
Altarum announces MIPScast™, a user-friendly, interactive web-based tool designed to help clinicians predict and improve their Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scores in order to comply with the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
National Health Spending Holds Steady at 18% of GDP
January 12, 2018 | Press Release
U.S. health sector spending continues to grow at a more sustainable rate, driven in part by a slowdown in hiring, hospital spending, and price growth in hospitals, physician and clinical services, and prescription drugs, according to Altarum’s latest Health Sector Economic Indicators briefs.