Reduced costly care: Behavioral health–related emergency department visits and inpatient admissions decreased by 35% and 43%, respectively. Lower total medical costs: The intervention group saved ...

Along with the personal consumption expenditures data released Friday — which the Federal Reserve thinks of as a proxy for inflation — we got some granular numbers on a big factor in the prices we see ...

With premiums climbing, benefit leaders rely on claims data and analytic tools to guide smarter plan design and purchasing.

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

A difference-in-differences analysis of health care claims data evaluated excess health care costs in the 12 months following COVID-19 diagnosis among the general and older adult populations.

It might be easier to make sense of the recent fatal shooting of an insurance CEO, an act with ominous overtones about health care costs and insurance coverage, if any one aspect of health-care ...

Administrative costs account for almost a quarter of total US health care spending. Other nations spend a much smaller share (of their much smaller spending) on administrative costs. While high ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

To retain good employees, Rich Michals Jr. has paid the entire cost of health insurance premiums for his local workers at the Farmingdale-based Parcel Management Auditing and Consulting for all of the ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security ...