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Projected Slow Growth In 2013 Health Spending Ahead Of Future Increases

Insurance Coverage, Population Aging, and Economic Growth Are Main Drivers of Projected Future Health Spending Increases New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services project a slow 3.6 percent...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2014 1:01 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

US Health Spending Growth Projected To Average 5.8 Percent Annually Through 2022

New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) project that aggregate health care spending in the United States will grow at an average annual rate of 5.8 percent for 2012–22, or 1.0...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2013 1:06 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

Winners And Losers From The Zaltrap Price Discount: Unintended Consequences?

Soon after Sanofi Pharmaceuticals’ Inc. August 2012 launch of the biologic drug ziv-aflibercept (brand name Zaltrap) into the U.S. market, its price triggered an unusual act of defiance on the part of oncolAogists. Physicians from Memorial Sloan-Kettering...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2013 10:46 AM by Health Affairs Blog

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Where Is Health Spending Headed? Some Reactions To The CMS Report

For the third year in a row, national health spending in 2011 grew less than 4 percent, according to the CMS Office of the Actuary. However, the report said modest rebounds in pharmaceutical spending and physician visits pointed toward an acceleration...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 9:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Insurance, Physicians, Health Care Costs, States, Spending, Medicare, Competition, Access, Pharma, Hospitals, Medicaid

New Health Affairs: Health Spending Growth Remained Low In 2011

A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), released today in the January 2013 issue of Health Affairs , estimates that health care spending in the United States grew at a rate of 3.9 percent...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2013 1:02 PM by Health Affairs Blog

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Health Spending Grew At An Historically Slow Rate In 2009

During 2009, a year of deep recession followed by slow economic growth, national health care spending rose at its lowest rate in five decades, federal analysts report in the January issue of Health Affairs, released today. Health spending rose only 4...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2011 9:34 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Insurance, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Pharma, Medicaid

The Health Care Reform Reconciliation Bill

The House began its last step in the health reform legislative process early in the afternoon of Thursday, March 18, when it released HR 4872, the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010. As this year’s health reform legislation...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 11:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Policy, Politics, Insurance, Payment, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Coverage, Pharma, Medicaid, Health Law

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