Mental Care Utilization Poised to be Key Driver of Health Spending Next Year
PwC in a new analysis suggests utilization of mental care services will be a key driver of health spending next [...]
Report Suggests COVID-19 Could Cost Insurers up to $547 Billion
A new report from Wakely, commissioned by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), suggests COVID-19 could cost payers between $30 [...]
Anthem Pledges $2.5 Billion in Aid to Members, Providers
Anthem is offering $2.5 billion in financial aid in an effort to cushion the blow from COVID-19 for customers and [...]
HPA’s Hayes Talks Inflated Health Prices
The latest Relentless Health Value podcast features Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine President and CEO Peter Hayes in a discussion [...]
Prime Therapeutics Program Posts 9:1 ROI
A program by Prime Therapeutics posted a 9:1 return on the original investment, the PBM announced. According to a press [...]
Podcast Focuses on Price Transparency Models
A Patients Rising podcast spotlights how price transparency models could help empower patients. "Unfortunately, patients usually don’t know the cost [...]
AMCP to Supreme Court: Ruling Against PCMA Could Raise Health Costs
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) in an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court tells the court ruling [...]
Webinar to Highlight AMGA’s Efforts to Reduce Low-Value Care
An upcoming webinar is set to outline how AMGA is working to reduce low-value care, a problem which it says [...]
Blog Highlights Report on Coronavirus Medical Costs
A recent Health Populi blog post highlights a new report from the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker which estimates the average [...]
PhRMA: HCCI Report ‘Overestimates Medicine Spending and Pricing’
The Health Care Cost Institute's (HCCI) recent report on health spending "overestimates medicine spending and pricing and mischaracterizes the true [...]
Survey: More than Half of Patients Avoid Taking Medicine Due to Cost
A recent survey conducted by Surescripts, in partnership with Engine Group, suggests a little more than half of U.S. patients [...]
Study: Drug Price Hikes Were Main Driver of Increased Health Spending by Employer-Sponsored Plans
A new released Thursday by the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) found that prescription drug price hikes were the main [...]
Beyond Burnout: Docs Decry ‘Moral Injury’ From Financial Pressures of Health Care
Via Kaiser Health News Dr. Keith Corl was working in a Las Vegas emergency room when a patient arrived with [...]
American College of Physicians Backs Medicare for All
The nation's second-largest doctors group, the American College of Physicians (ACP), is officially endorsing Medicare for All and a public [...]
Webinar Spotlights Low-Value Care
A Jan. 15 webinar hosted by the Going Below the Surface Forum, in partnership with AcademyHealth and the National Pharmaceutical [...]
Kellogg’s Garthwaite Outlines Key Hurdles to Medicare for All
Kellogg School of Management's Craig Garthwaite and colleagues in a recent paper outlined some key challenges to Medicare for All, [...]
Study’s Results a Blow to Popular Idea for Lower Health Costs
A popular idea that investing more resources into caring for the sickest and costliest patients could help cut health costs [...]
