From 2021 to 2022, Medicare spending increased by 5.9 percent, from $689 billion in 2021 to $944 billion in 2022, reaching 21 percent of total National Health Expenditures. Increased Medicare spending ...

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, ...

Doctors providing care for Medicare patients face yet another bureaucratic payment cut in 2025. Thankfully, Congress is considering granting them relief. But doctors need more than another temporary ...

Medicare doctors are set to receive a modest pay increase next year. When Congress enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025,” they included a one-time 2.5 percent pay hike for ...

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...

Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors' medical assistant, who asks how she's doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing ...