One way to reduce healthcare costs is target the high spenders who remain persistently in cost over time. Using claims data from China between 2010 2014, we sought identify level of concentration spending and proportion whose five years. a transition matrix linear regression strategy, find that top 10% account for more than 50% total expenditures. Of individuals were 2010, 33.6% remained one ye...

Despite some progress, the current state of India's healthcare outcome leaves much to be desired. It has glaring challenges around high out-of-pocket spending, inequality of services, and fragmented social and regulatory standards. Since 2001, medical insurance has gained ground amid the proliferation of private health insurance (PHI) entities. However, it still remains a minor contributor in t...

Cost-containment in healthcare spending has become a central issue in public policy and healthcare reform, especially as the affordable care act adds millions of people to public and private insurance rolls. In this climate, longstanding criticism of pharmaceutical pricing has grown sharper, and many in both policy and medicine have characterized the costs of newly developed drugs as both exorb...

Physicians and hospital management and staff often work side by side but rarely together. There are many costsaving and quality-improving benefits that could result from proper integration, but many economic and operational barriers stand in between the status quo and a fully-integrated healthcare system. These misalignments and practices contribute to wasted healthcare spending.

Despite some progress, the current state of India's healthcare outcome leaves much to be desired. It has glaring challenges around high out-of-pocket spending, inequality of services, and fragmented social and regulatory standards. Since 2001, medical insurance has gained ground amid the proliferation of private health insurance (PHI) entities. However, it still remains a minor contributor in t...

This research addresses the important theoretical and empirical issue surrounding business value of information technology (IT). Several IT productivity studies have failed to find a significant relationship between contemporaneous IT spending and firm productivity. One reason is the delay or lag between spending on IT, and its resulting impact on production processes in the firm. This paper de...

In an effort to address the high cost of health care, the federal government, commercial health plans, and other organizations are defining and using measures of health care spending for the purposes of rewarding or penalizing physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers, defining provider networks, and encouraging patients to use particular providers. For example, in the Medicare pro...

Total spending on drugs in Canada was forecasted, by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), to have reached $26.9 billion in 2007, an increase of 7.2% over the previous year 1 . Drug expenses were forecasted to represent 16.8% of total healthcare spending in 2007. Drug expenditure growth was lower in 2007 than the 11% increase reported in 2005 and the 9.1% increase in 2003. CIHI ...