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This month's Health Sector Economic Indicator Briefs reduce estimates of national health spending by 0.57% for all of 2016 and 0.65% for the first 5 months of 2017.
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this report provides a summary of key trends in health care spending, prices, utilization, and employment in July 2017.
Video recording of Altarum's 7th annual sustainable health spending symposium, which took place on July 18, 2017 in Washington DC.
This month's Health Sector Economic Briefs show unexpected growth in hiring with 36,500 new health care jobs added in June—a significant increase over the average 21,000 per month in the first 5 months of this year.
At Altarum, we are driven to create a better, more sustainable future for all Americans by applying research-based and field-tested solutions that transform our systems of health and health care.
This report presents the results of this study and the implications for state health insurance law and regulations, the health insurance system, and the contracting and billing practices of Title X-funded health centers.
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this report provides a summary of key trends in health care spending, prices, utilization, and employment in June 2017.
With health care employment growth down by 10,000 per month, prices slowing across the board, and total spending growth also down 0.5% from last year’s rate, private and public sector purchasers may feel some relief compared to the acceleration of...