Health Care Job Growth Plummets in January
ANN ARBOR — The United States health care industry added only 18,000 jobs in January 2017, the slowest monthly increase since January 2014, which marked the onset of the expanded …
New Study Shows Health Information Disconnect
ANN ARBOR — A new study from Ann Arbor health consultants Altarum Institute and the New York-based health researcher Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds that most vulnerable healthcare consumers struggle …
Health Jobs Defy ACA Uncertainty with Surge in December
ANN ARBOR — Despite huge unknowns in whether or when the Affordable Care Act will be repealed and what will replace it, the health care industry in the United States …
Altarum Acquires Healthcare Payment System Firm
ANN ARBOR — The Altarum Institute, a nonprofit supplying research and consulting to the healthcare industry, Tuesday announced that it had acquired another nonprofit, the Connecticut-based Health Care Incentives Improvement …
October Health Spending Up 5.5%
ANN ARBOR — National health spending in October 2016 grew at an annual rate of 5.5 percent, driven up by the hospital component, which grew 6.6 percent, according to the …
Health Spending Up 5.5% in August
ANN ARBOR — The nation’s spending on health care was up 5.5 percent from August 2015 to August 2016, a $3.4 trillion annual rate, according to the monthly Health Sector …
Health Spending Up a Moderate 5.2% in June
ANN ARBOR — National health spending in June was up 5.2 percent from the same month a year earlier to $3.36 trillion, according to the monthly Health Sector Economic Indicators …
Health Spending Growth Below 5% for Fourth Straight Month
ANN ARBOR — National health spending in February 2016 was 4.8 percent higher than health spending in February 2015, up from the 4.5 percent year-over-year growth rate observed in January …
Slowdown in Health Spending Continues into 2016; Prices Inch Up
ANN ARBOR — National health spending in January 2016 was 4.9 percent higher than health spending in January 2015, according to the latest monthly Health Sector Economic Indicators released by …
Health Inflation Remains Tame, Spending Trending Down
ANN ARBOR — A combination of a resurgent economy and the Affordable Care Act have produced major increases in health care spending over the past two years, but the effects …