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KFF: How has U.S. spending on healthcare changed over time

WebFrom 2017 to 2018, the share of GDP attributable to health spending decreased slightly from 17.9% to 17.7% as the general economy outpaced health spending. From 1970 …

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WebBy Nisha Kurani and Cynthia Cox September 25, 2020 The United States spends significantly more on healthcare than comparable countries, and yet has worse …

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Modern Healthcare: Johns Hopkins study names health systems …

WebBy Lisa Gillespie January 14, 2022 About 11% of the nation's health systems are big-time over-utilizers of low-value services, according to a Johns Hopkins University study …

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WebAimed at Stopping the Rise of Hospital-driven Health Costs Borne by Employers and Patients, Coalition Sets its Sights on Federal Policymakers WASHINGTON, DC – (April …

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WebBy Austin Frakt July 16, 2018 It takes only a glance at a hospital bill or at the myriad choices you may have for health care coverage to get a sense of the bewildering complexity of …

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WebWhy Americans Spend So Much on Healthcare - In 12 Charts The Wall Street Journal July 31, 2018 The U.S. spends more per capita on health care than any other developed …

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WebBy Tina Reed Nearly 3 in 4 hospital markets around the U.S. are "highly concentrated," according to a new Healthy Marketplace Index report by the Health Care Cost Institute …

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WebBy Alex Kacik February 4, 2019 Hospital prices are the main driver of U.S. healthcare spending inflation, and that trend should direct any policy changes going forward, …

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KFF: What We Know About Provider Consolidation

WebBy Karyn Schwartz, Eric Lopez, Matthew Rae, Tricia Neuman September 2, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic decreases in health care spending, as patients …

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WSJ: A City’s Only Hospital Cut Services. How Locals Fought Back.

WebApril 11, 2021. When the only hospital in a small central Wyoming city stopped delivering babies and cut back on surgeries, local residents sought to start their own. The fight that …

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WSJ: Hospitals Merged. Quality Didn’t Improve.

WebBy Melanie Evans, January 1, 2020 The quality of care at hospitals acquired during a recent wave of deal making got worse or stayed the same, new research found The quality of …

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WebBy Darrel Rowland March 22, 2022 COLUMBUS, Ohio – If you need to go to the hospital in Ohio these days, your choices are dominated by a handful of multibillion-dollar medical …

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WebBy Anna Wilde Mathews and Melanie Evans, December 27, 2018 Phoebe Putney Health System doesn’t want its doctors to send business to competitors. If they …

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WebBy Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas September 24th, 2022 In 2018, senior executives at one of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital chains, …

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WebJanuary 19, 2023 Antitrust strategies could go a long way toward reining in rising health care costs. Some things in health care are not so complicated. One rudimentary …

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WebBy Jay Hancock July 16, 2021 The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home …

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WebBy Ariel Hart June 25, 2020 Piedmont Healthcare has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that claimed the system overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for …

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Chicago Tribune: Chicago-area hospitals have merger fever. Is it …

WebChicago-area hospitals have merger fever. Is it good for patients? Chicago Tribune By Lisa Schencker October 25, 2017 Chicago-area health systems have merger …

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