Medical Economics February 28, 2025
Richard Payerchin

Key Takeaways

  • Ischemic heart disease management serves as a model for improving care and reducing costs for other conditions like Type 2 diabetes.
  • Geographic variations in healthcare spending highlight issues of underutilization and overutilization, suggesting disparities in access to services.
  • Rapidly growing spending on anxiety and substance use disorders underscores the need for early intervention to manage these conditions cost-effectively.

Author discusses new study that breaks down health care spending and medical conditions over a decade, and what that could mean for the future.

Following the health care money trail can lead to new ideas on how to handle medical conditions for patients around the country.

For example, large-scale treatment of ischemic heart disease could serve as a...

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