Service utilization is the biggest factor behind spending variation, with prices, disease prevalence, and demographics playing smaller roles.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators in Sacramento seem to agree: Prescription drug prices are too high. But ...

Understand the reasons behind why US healthcare costs more and the implications for Americans facing high medical bills.

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Across healthcare system, stakeholders share blame for high costs. This includes hospitals, drugmakers, insurers and others ...

United Health Group’s pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, stopped covering Cole Schmidtknecht’s ‘life-changing’ inhaler, suit ...

As Washington combats overdoses from fentanyl and other drugs, addiction centers say a gap in funding for patients' room and ...

Providers are sympathetic to Medicare enrollees’ concerns but don’t agree on their role in helping patients find less costly ...

Tariffs declared by the US that had been set to start for two nations overnight would push costs up for many healthcare items.

For most of her life, Erica Miller suffered from a medical condition she didn’t know she had. When she finally got a diagnosis and treatment, the cost of her medication varied wildly month-to-month ...

Drugmakers offer “copay assistance programs” to help people afford expensive medicines. But health insurers are milking these ...