CMS Office of the Actuary: 2016 National Health Expenditures Report
In 2016, overall national health spending increased 4.3 percent following 5.8 percent growth in 2015, according to a study by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published...
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Value-Based Care Growing As a Way to Reduce Employer and Employee Health Costs Providers, namely hospitals and large regional health care systems, are increasingly being asked by payers to accept at-risk reimbursement, where payment...
Read MoreFor More than Half of U.S., $100 or Less Remains the Maximum Most Americans Can Pay for Health Insurance Premiums
Double-digit rate increases for people purchasing insurance in the Affordable Care Act market has renewed questions regarding what people can afford to pay for coverage. As it had done in 2015, HealthPocket conducted a nationwide...
Read MoreHealth Expenses and Debt Are Concerns for Planning for Retirement
Forty-five percent of workers are not too or not at all confident they will have enough money for medical expenses in retirement, and nearly three in five workers say debt is a problem for them....
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