Healthcare concerns fuels debate in battleground states

The financial pain from your healthcare cost is real, you are uniquely placed to negotiate prices down, and hospitals, at 46% of spending, are where to look, says the CEO and president of the Health Care Cost Institute, which issued its annual cost and utilization report today.

Spending on prescription drugs grew by 40%, faster than spending on inpatient care, outpatient care and professional services, according to a new report from the Health Care Cost Institute.

Meta-analysis links assisted reproduction tech (ART) to higher risks of major heart defects in pregnancies, urging targeted screening and long-term heart health follow-up.

A new Health Care Cost Instittue report finds prices, not utilization, drove spending growth in employer coverage from 2019 to 2023, echoing the group's very first report — and the title of Uwe Reinhardt's famous article.

Reading C-peptide alongside glucose could better predict which autoantibody-positive people will develop type 1 diabetes and detect treatment effects sooner.

Electronic health record developers, health plans, manufacturers and discount programs could support early prescribing decisions by enabling providers and patients to view more pricing options at the point of prescribing, says Joseph Kleinman, president of Buzz Health.

Fariha Abbasi-Feinberg, MD, discusses underdiagnosed sleep disorders, what a recent insomnia-stroke study does and doesn't prove, and where health plan policy still lags behind the evidence.

The Health Care Cost Institute’s annual healthcare cost and utilization report on healthcare spending by those with employer-based health insurance shows that price increases, not utilization, account for soaring cost increases. HCCI CEO Katie Martin says employers should focus on bringing down hospital prices.