Wall Street Journal3d
S&P 500 Health Care Sector Index
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McKnight's Senior Living1d
Spending on home healthcare grows twice as fast as total personal healthcare spending over past 18 months
Spending on home healthcare has grown by 24.8% over the past 18 months, more than double the growth in personal healthcare spending overall.
New York Post7d
Put American patients first and drain the health care behemoth’s wasteful costs
Additionally, lack of price transparency allows hospitals and health-care providers to institute massive markups on medical services — on average, up to 7 times the actual cost of care.
Marketplace3d
Employee benefit costs notch healthy gains, led by health care
But the bigger employer benefit cost — about 8% of total compensation — is health insurance. And in 2024, the premiums your employer paid went up faster than most things, besides eggs. “So health care ...
When will lagging health care stocks return to healthy growth?
Biotech has lagged even more. The S&P Biotechnology Select Industry Index has returned about 3 per cent annually over 10 years. In Canada, the subsector has fared much worse; the S&P/TSX Venture ...
The Boston Globe20d
What good is health care price transparency if no one’s shopping?
In 2018, Massachusetts launched a website, CompareCare, to help consumers shop for health care. The goal was to let people compare the price and quality of health care across hospitals and to ...