Economic models suggest that if health care productivity could grow by 4 percent, we would solve the health care cost problem. Some have argued that productivity in high-touch industries such as ...

F or a long time, health care was eating the world. From 1950 to 2009 American spending on hospitals, medics and the like rose from 5% of gdp to 17%. Between the late 1970s and the mid-2010s ...

Costs are expected to increase 8% driven primarily by pharmacy drug prices. High utilization and the cost of behavioral care also are contributing to increased medical costs, according to HUB ...

For the past decade, health care has added new jobs every month—not even taking a break during the Great Recession; from 2001 to 2016, health care jobs represented 29 percent of the 14.4 million ...

The cost of job-based health care coverage for 2024 is expected to rise at its fastest pace in years as inflation pervades insurance policies. CNN values your feedback 1.

For every dollar employers spend on health care, they're spending 61 cents on illness-related absences and reduced productivity. Between 2015 and 2019, lost work due to sick leave has increased 12 ...

In this issue of Evidence-Based Oncology™, we explore the role of collaboration between employers and providers in reducing health care costs, improving workforce health and productivity, and ...

U.S. employers expect health insurance costs to rise an average 5.8 percent in 2025, largely due to increased cost of medical services as well as higher use, according to a survey released by ...

A 2005 survey by The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation working toward improvements in the U.S. health-care system, reports that older workers are less likely to take time off from work for ...

Expertise and opinions of authors published by ForbesBooks. Imprint operated under license. Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According ...

In The Wall Street Journal, Mark Warshawsky and Andrew Biggs write that a worker who today makes $30,000 has had to forsake a 26% salary increase since 1999 as employer costs rise.