Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the latest data on national health expenditures (NHE). The headline number, 7.2 percent growth in 2024, is concerning but hardly a ...

On January 15, 2026, I published a Forefront commentary about a paper published in Health Affairs by Micah Hartman and colleagues at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) analyzing the ...

Healthcare spending varies widely between metropolitan areas, according to new data from the Health Care Cost Institute. | ...

It also has a health care problem. These are not two separate crises but rather the same crisis wearing different clothes.

New HCCI Health Cost Landscape shows prices, not use of care, lead to wide spending gaps across US metro areas ...

Unfortunately for people in this age group, health care costs only increase from here. Americans ages 45-54 spent an average of $6,748 on health care in 2024—up from $6,338 the year before, according ...

Despite what politicians claim, drugs are not the main driver of growth in health-care spending — and capping their prices would only worsen the problem. Health-care spending continues to grow, ...

Over the past century, the proportion of health-care services purchased through insurance—as opposed to directly by patients—has surged, thanks to the exemption of employer-sponsored benefits from ...

WARWICK – Rising hospital prices and increased use of high-cost weight loss drugs drove Rhode Island’s health care spending above the target set by the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner in ...