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This month's Health Sector Economic Indicator Briefs show modest growth in national health care spending and annual health care prices.
Altarum's current estimate of annualized national health spending for the first five months of 2018 is 0.67 percent higher than previously estimated, at $3.61 trillion, and hospital care spending is now 2.04 percent higher, year to date (as of May)...
Video recording of Altarum's 8th annual sustainable health spending symposium, which took place on July 12, 2018, in Washington, DC.
In May 2018, national health spending was 4.4% higher than it was in May 2017 at $3.62 trillion (seasonally adjusted annual rate).
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.
The theme of transforming ideas into action closely captures the essence of Altarum’s work and that of our wholly-owned subsidiaries in 2017.
A new report from the Altarum Center for Value in Health Care examines how "non-retail" spending is allocated across national health account services categories.
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this report provides a summary of key trends in Q1 2018 in health care spending, prices, utilization, and employment.