Full year stats from the National Venture Capital Association show an invigorated market for financings and exits.
A blog post by the Altarum Institute takes a really long look at the history of health spending in the United States.
A report from Truven Health Analytics gives trends on health spending in employer-sponsored plans.
One of the unintended consequences of all the requirements to use HIT has been the creation and growth of a whole new category of health care employee–the medical scribe.
A Towers Watson brief looks at the results from an onsite health clinic at BP America’s headquarters, finding it appeared to have the potential to reduce spending, but did not yet create a return on investment.
Medicare spending, like overall health spending, has been lower for the last few years than was originally projected. A Kaiser Family Foundation brief attempts to understand factors behind the slowdown.
Employer views on private health insurance exchanges were the subject of a recent survey by the Private Exchange Evaluation Cooperative.
Yet another approach to understanding the sources of geographic health spending variation in a paper from the NBER.
Towers Watson gives us a perspective on employer health benefit trends.
The Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute issues its annual report on prescription drug benefit design, with specialty drugs getting much of the attention.