Our September issue features articles that explore health care finance, costs, and spending in a variety of settings. Many other topics are covered, including entries in our Medicaid Financing and Ag ...

Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 percent, ...

Prevalence surveys in U.S. hospitals showed that on any given day, 1 of 25 patients had a health care–associated infection in 2011, as compared with 1 of 31 patients in 2015. We repeated the survey in ...

Douglas M. Long, BA, MBA, was featured as the keynote speaker on the closing day of The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy 2024 annual meeting, with a session dedicated to surveying the health care and ...

On 22 February 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) published the statistics for federal civil fraud recoveries in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The DOJ announced that the “government and whistleblowers ...

The number of healthcare bankruptcies in 2023 increased 71 percent from 2022, reaching the highest level in the last five years, a report from Gibbins Advisors revealed. The report analyzed healthcare ...

Health care stocks stumbled compared with the rest of the market in 2023. Companies missed their profit targets. Some CEOs even lost their bonuses. But the biggest names in health care still made $3.5 ...

This month, the WBJ's Excellence in Health Care series returns. Meet and read about the honorees below. You can find previous 2023 standouts here: August 2023: Excellence in Health Care June 2023: ...