National health spending grew almost 3% in 2021, reaching $4.3 trillion as big increases in healthcare use and insurance coverage were offset by lower government spending on COVID-19. The year’s ...

U.S. healthcare spending totaled $4.3 trillion in 2021, an increase of just 2.7% from a year earlier as COVID-19 relief funding waned, actuaries from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...

As health systems and hospitals are under unprecedented stress from the COVID-19 pandemic, their IT departments also are facing critical skills and staffing shortages as they battle unrelenting ...

The federal government recovered more than $5 billion in healthcare fraud settlements and judgments in fiscal year 2021, according to the joint annual government Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control ...