The US is expected to spend more than $560 billion on prescription medications in 2026, up 8.2% from last year as drugs for ...

Three ways GLP-1s are about to change America.

A new Medicare pilot program aims to expand access to GLP-1 weight loss medications, potentially reducing out-of-pocket costs ...

U.S. healthcare spending is set to climb to $9 trillion by 2034, representing 20.6% of the economy, according to new federal data. | U.S. healthcare spending is set to climb to $9 trillion by 2034, ...

Utilization — not cost growth — continues to accelerate spending, government actuaries said. Rising prescription drug ...

Researchers calculated potential savings on high-cost cancer medications if access to MFN prices negotiated by Medicare was expanded.

Health care spending in the US reached $5.3 trillion and increased 7.2 percent in 2024, similar to growth of 7.4 percent in 2023, as increased demand for health care influenced this two-year trend. As ...

National health spending is forecast to approach $9 trillion by 2034, increasing faster than GDP and consuming 20.6% of the ...

The actuaries and economists at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released their annual National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) for 2024. The NHEA is a matrix that ...

Healthcare spending reached $5.3 trillion in 2024, an increase of 7.2% over the previous year, CMS said Wednesday. This marks the second consecutive year of growth above 7%, following an increase of 7 ...

National health expenditure growth between 2009 and 2019 slowed to less than half the historical rate of growth seen between 1970 and 2008. To identify why, we gathered actuarial projections of the ...