The newest and most extensive analysis of U.S. healthcare spending reveals unprecedented insights into how medical costs are ...

Service utilization is the biggest factor behind spending variation, with prices, disease prevalence, and demographics playing smaller roles.

Researchers present the most comprehensive study on U.S. health care spending and variations across 3,110 counties by four payers, 148 health conditions, 38 age/sex groups, and seven types of care.

The charts come from the Commonwealth Fund's ... "Insurance profits outpace health care spending." "It's the sicker folks who face the high out-of-pocket costs," Mechanic laments.

Private health insurance spending on hospital care grew 13% in 2023. Commercial payers typically reimburse hospitals at a higher rate than Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare spending on hospital ...

The Republican-led Budget Committee approved a sweeping proposal to unlock Trump's agenda, sending it to the full House.

The second goal may be more important than the first. Some estimates suggest that as much as 25 percent of U.S. health care spending is wasteful. Our current use of HSAs acts as a corrective ...

An early move by the president has raised questions about what direction his second-term policy on drug costs will take.

As they try to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda, congressional Republicans face the same political risk as a generation ...