By Tammy Hawes – Administrative waste, the excess overhead that occurs primarily due to the complexities between providers and payers including time devoted to billing and reporting, is the largest area of waste and accounts for $266 billion a year.
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By Joel Cohen PhD – When the Nation’s top health services researchers want information about what patients are spending on healthcare, they turn to a reliable source: AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), an integral part of the Agency’s unique inventory of data tools and resources.
By Rohan Kulkarni – Growth in healthcare spending in the United States is slowing down, however it’s still growing and continues to outpace gross domestic product (GDP) spending by several points. Revolutionary trends are emerging for all healthcare service providers (i.e., payers, providers and pharmaceuticals), that will guarantee radical shifts in how these providers serve their patients, as well as how business process outsourcing (BPO)vendors serve their healthcare clients.
Decline in Healthcare Spending Growth Will Continue PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) provides research and analysis on trends impacting various industries including healthcare. HRI publishes…
Latest Research by The Commonwealth Fund Released The Commonwealth Fund is a non-profit organization established in 1918 to promote the common good. It was one…
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