National health spending in 2011: overall growth remains low, but some payers and services show signs of accelerationMicah Hartman
Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS, Baltimore, MD, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 32:87-99. 2013
..Overall, there was relatively slow growth in incomes, jobs, and GDP in 2011, which raises questions about whether US health care spending will rebound over the next few years as it typically has after past economic downturns...
Monitoring health spending increases: incremental budget analyses reveal challenging tradeoffsMicah Hartman
Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS, Baltimore, MD 21244 1850, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 28:41-52. 2006
..With the implementation of Part D in 2006, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget projects that Federal budget pressures will heighten, bringing increased attention to Medicare's long-term fiscal outlook...
U.S. Health spending by age, selected years through 2004Micah Hartman
National Health Statistics Group, Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:w1-w12. 2008
..The future age-mix is expected to have a major impact on nursing home spending growth while minimally affecting overall Medicare spending growth...
National health spending in 2007: slower drug spending contributes to lowest rate of overall growth since 1998Micah Hartman
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of Actuary in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:246-61. 2009
..Spending growth from private sources accelerated in 2007 as public spending slowed; however, public spending growth has continued to outpace private sources since 2002...
Health spending growth at a historic low in 2008Micah Hartman
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS Office of the Actuary, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:147-55. 2010
..Despite the overall slowdown in national health spending growth, increases in this spending continue to outpace growth in the resources available to pay for it...
Recession contributes to slowest annual rate of increase in health spending in five decadesAnne Martin
Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:11-22. 2011
..Declining federal revenues and strong growth in federal health spending increased the health spending share of total federal revenue from 37.6 percent in 2008 to 54.2 percent in 2009...
Pronounced gender and age differences are evident in personal health care spending per personJonathan Cylus
National Health Statistics Group, Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:153-60. 2011
..The gender difference in total spending was most pronounced in the elderly, as a result of the longer life expectancy of women...
National health spending in 2006: a year of change for prescription drugsAaron Catlin
National Health Statistics Group, CMS Office of the Actuary, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:14-29. 2008
..The implementation of Medicare Part D caused a major shift in the distribution of payers for prescription drugs, as Medicare played a larger role in drug purchases than it had before...