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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.
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this report provides a summary of key trends in Q3 2017 in health care spending, prices, utilization, and employment.
New data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show slower health sector growth in 2016.
These reports, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provide a monthly summary of key trends in health care spending, prices, utilization, and employment.
Total health spending growth in September was 4.3% higher compared to a year earlier primarily due to slow growth in hospital spending.
Most states fail to provide consumers with the information they need to make informed health care choices and even fewer provide data on the price and quality of care together, according to a report by independent nonprofit organizations Altarum and Catal
These reports, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provide a monthly summary of key trends in health care spending, prices, utilization, and employment.
Monograph of Altarum's 7th annual sustainable health spending symposium, which took place on July 18, 2017 in Washington DC.