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With Blood-Based Test Approval, Alzheimer’s Biomarker Testing Has Grown 37.5x, and Dementia Diagnosing Has Shifted Toward Earlier, Milder Stages
Read the StudyDecember 08, 2025
High Polypharmacy Rates Underscore Pharmaceutical Reliance
The prevalence of polypharmacy across the U.S. population reflects both ongoing therapeutic innovation and the limitations of the U.S. healthcare system
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Austin Miller
StudiesNovember 26, 2025
Cash Rates Are Often Lower Than Negotiated Rates for Common Hospital Services
Hospital price transparency made discounted cash and negotiated rates publicly available, but this information is disconnected from actual payment decisions.
Katie Patton • Matt Ikard • Allison Oakes, Ph.D.
StudiesNovember 18, 2025
Limited Network Options Offered to Employers Can Result in Thousands More for the Same Healthcare Service
With the advent of health plan price transparency, the cost of a provider network is now knowable, but rarely known.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Matt Ikard
StudiesNovember 03, 2025
Growth in Emerging Chronic Conditions Signals a General Sense of Unwellness
Collectively, the challenge for health economy stakeholders is to consider its poor performance in managing predictable chronic health conditions.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Austin Miller
StudiesOctober 27, 2025
Projected Population Change and Market-Level Incidence Rates Influence Healthcare Demand
The lack of correlation between population trends and surgical incidence rates challenges assumptions about long-term growth in healthcare demand.
Katie Patton • Austin Miller • Allison Oakes, Ph.D.
StudiesOctober 17, 2025
Hospital Administrative Expenditures Exceed Direct Patient Care by Nearly 2x
Administrative expenditures at U.S. hospitals grew 87.2% from 2011 to 2023, outpacing direct patient care spending growth.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D.
StudiesOctober 13, 2025
How Regression to the Mean in Commercial Rates Would Impact Healthcare Costs
Although the hospital with the highest market share had the highest UHC rate, its Aetna rate was lower than two hospitals with lower market share.
Katie Patton • Matt Ikard • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Jim Browne
StudiesSeptember 29, 2025
Younger Adults and Women Drive Growth in Nutrition Services
Data suggests that health economy stakeholders view nutrition as an ancillary service instead of the cornerstone of chronic disease prevention.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • colin-macon
StudiesSeptember 22, 2025
Market Trends in Private Equity-Backed Healthcare, With Insights From Home Health
Scrutiny of the role of private equity (PE) firms in healthcare has increased in parallel with their investments in healthcare services.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D.
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