Health Care Cost Drivers: Cancer
February 13, 2018
You’re probably aware that the U.S. spends a lot on cancer, but do you know how much? In 2014 roughly $88…
COST DRIVERS
Dana Goldman on waste and value in Rx spending
January 29, 2018
When Suzanne Delbanco called Dana Goldman, Director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of…
Do the cost of cancer drugs have you worried? Us too.
November 28, 2017
We spend a lot of time at CPR thinking about rising pharmacy prices. Today, let’s look specifically at cancer drugs.…
Mollyann Brodie on Americans and pharmacy prices
September 11, 2017
With the increasing cost of prescription drugs seeming never-ending, Suzanne waned to check in with the polling expert, Mollyann Brodie, Senior Vice…
Palliative Care: What is it and how can it benefit employers?
August 22, 2017
Because CPR typically works with employers seeking to improve the value of the health care they buy for an employee…
Health Care Cost Drivers: Pharmaceuticals
August 01, 2017
Last week, CPR explored the impact that health care prices have on health care costs—particularly in markets with less competition…
Dr. Kavita Patel on how to combat the vicious cycle of rising pharmacy costs
July 31, 2017
Suzanne asks Dr. Kavita Patel, a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a practicing primary care physician, the toughest…
Health Care Cost Drivers: Prices
July 25, 2017
For any of us who work in health care – even as benefit managers – one of the questions we…