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New Healthcare Index Reveals Sharp Increase in Patient Costs
It is unclear at this time what role President Barack Obama's healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, played in the slowdown of healthcare spending and how much can be attributed to the Great Recession.
During the last year, a compelling narrative has emerged about healthcare spending: Though it continues to rise each year, its rate of growth is slowing dramatically and unexpectedly. Projections show that this trend will continue during the coming decade, partially because the impact of the Great Recession has lingered.
Affordable Care Act
It is unclear at this time what role President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, the , played in the slowdown. Looking at various aspects of health spending will, however, help determine what factors can alleviate healthcare costs, which still grow at a faster rate than the rest of the economy and threaten the financial sustainability of government-sponsored health plans. To analyze health care’s changing role on the US economy, US News has created a new annual Health Care Index, which examines trends in specific health areas from 2000 to 2013.
“As health care enters an unprecedented change in the way people are covered, how care is paid for and how it’s delivered, we want to better understand how it affects things like jobs and people’s economic well-being,” says Brian Kelly, editor and chief content editor at US News & World Report.
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Navigating Health Literacy, Social Determinants, and Discrimination in National Health Plans
February 13th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the February 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on how health plans can screen for health literacy, social determinants of health, and perceived health care discrimination.
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Need for Pharmacogenomic Testing in Mental Health Care Explored at AMCP 2024
April 17th 2024Presenters from Mayo Clinic discussed the benefits of implementing pharmacogenomic testing in mental health care for the betterment of patient outcomes, reducing medical costs, and more at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) 2024 annual meeting.
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Drs Raymond Thertulien, Joseph Mikhael on Racial Disparities in Multiple Myeloma Care Access
December 28th 2023In the wake of the 2023 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition, Raymond Thertulien, MD, PhD, of Novant Health, and Joseph Mikhael, MD, MEd, FRCPC, FACP, chief medical officer of the International Myeloma Foundation, discussed health equity research highlights from the meeting and drivers of racial disparities in multiple myeloma outcomes.
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Study Highlights Disparities in Access to In-Network Mental Health Care vs Medical Care
April 17th 2024While health plans often employ reimbursement rates as a tool to incentivize provider participation within their networks, study results showed reimbursement rates for office visits with medical/surgical clinicians were on average 22% higher than behavioral health clinicians.
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