Shift in Health-Cost Focus Is Said to Show Promise
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By coordinating care and keeping their patients out of the hospital, doctors can help reduce overall health care spending, Medicare officials said.
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New cost estimates have prompted many lawmakers to say they want to revisit the new prescription drug benefit law.
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats looking for money to pay for health care priorities renewed their focus on insurers Thursday.
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While the Bush administration's words of support for a high-technology future for health care have been plentiful, the dollars, it seems, are scarce.
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The figure, which provides the first glimpse of the true cost of the Medicare drug benefit, could touch off a political uproar.
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Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania, who campaigned as a health care reformer, is learning that to contain costs is to pluck dollars from someoneâs pocket.
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To cope with rising health care costs, companies are asking current retirees to pay more for health insurance and some are telling future retirees to do without, according to a study released yesterday.
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Calls are deepening for the government to assume more of the costs of medical care through nationalized health care.
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Healthcare experts call for more funding, better training, and changes in institutional culture.
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he cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 percent this year, according to the results of an authoritative national survey reported yesterday.
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Health plan costs are expected to rise at a slightly faster rate in 2008, after three years of flat growth, according to preliminary results of a new survey.
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The medical industry will today call on the government to spend more on innovation and new technology for healthcare rather than on increasing bureaucracy in the National Health Service.
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Groups representing most facets of the nation's health care system are lining up in support of a large spending increase for a popular children's insurance program.
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As rising health-care costs hurt workers and retirees alike, America's trade unions are seen inching toward a broad-sweeping agreement with U.S. corporations on health-care reform.
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The President's vow to hold the line on health care spending signals he's trying to shape his legacy as a fiscal conservative
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What should really keep executives awake at night is the upward trajectory of health care spending.
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The most authoritative report on the cost of health insurance came out Tuesday, and itÂs sure to cause some new outrage.