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Tracking Virginia’s Health Care Sector Through 2019

Health Sector Job Recovery Remains Slower Among Women

79% of health care jobs held by men have returned compared to only 62% for women, resulting in  530,000 fewer women employed in health care through October.

Are Rising Health Care Prices Another COVID-19 Side Effect?

The dramatic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic recession on health care utilization, spending, and employment have been well-explored by experts tracking the US health sector. In this blog we summarize some of our recent findings on health sector price growth, using data from our Health Sector Economic Indicators (HSEI) through March 2021, focusing on changes in price trends just before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Explaining 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.

New 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.

Virginia’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.

Inflation-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.

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.

Medicaid and Private Insurance Spending on Behavioral Health Care in Virginia Increases from 2014 to 2020

Altarum’s analysis of Virginia’s behavioral health care spending between 2014 and 2020 finds that per-enrollee spending on behavioral health care significantly increased across payers. Learn the many factors contributing to the growth.