Extreme heat events have been demonstrated to increase emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality, but evidence of their impacts on the associated costs and on outpatient use is ...

More than 90% of Americans have health insurance. Slightly fewer than half are covered by public programs—Medicare and Medicaid—whereas the remainder rely on commercial health plans, most of which are ...

Historically, commercial health plans have applied utilization management (UM) less frequently to oncology treatments than to drugs in other therapeutic areas although this may be changing. We ...

Health insurance costs are rising even faster than the current 2.7 percent annual inflation rate, and experts expect double-digit surges in 2026. A major consequence of spiking prices is that a ...