25% of U.S. Health Care Spending Is Waste. Here’s Where to Find It. October 8, 2019 Approximately 25 percent of spending in the U.S. health care system can be characterized as waste. That’s between $760 billion...
How Insurance Plans Contribute to Opioid Epidemic: Johns Hopkins Study June 22, 2018 Health care insurers including Medicare, Medicaid and major private insurers have not done enough to combat the opioid epidemic, suggests...
Nonmedical Opioid Use Declines But Prescription Disorders, Deaths Rise: JAMA October 13, 2015 New research suggests that while new medical guidelines and increased public awareness of problems with the use of opioids to...
Study Reveals Extent, Nature of Health Data Breaches April 14, 2015 Between 2010 and 2013, there were more than 900 data breaches of protected health information affecting at least 500 individuals,...