The nation's total health spending will bump up next year as the health law expands insurance coverage to more Americans, and then will grow by an average of 6.2 percent a year over the next decade, according to projections released Wednesday by ...
It’s not just patients who are stunned to see what a hospital charges for services. Two groups of pediatricians in Anchorage are taking a stand after learning that one of the city’s hospitals, Alaska Regional Hospital, is charging $2...
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
A recent federal assessment of Medicare’s fiscal health contained a shred of good news — the public health insurance program for the elderly is spending money at a slightly slower rate than expected. Yet declining health care costs haven’t bought much time. According to that May report by the Boards of Trustees for Medicare, the […]
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The past few weeks have been a little intense for our family. Our brilliant, beautiful, athletic 19-year-old daughter found a lump where there certainly shouldn’t have been one and, naturally, promptly freaked out. She’s the scientific type, so we started with a little literature research, and found that for women her age, 99% of those […]