While 97% of Americans who received a prescription for medication in the last 90 days filled it, the most-cited reason among respondents who did not fill their prescription was cost (67%), according to the Truven Health Analytics-NPR Health Poll.
Compensation Issues
Healthcare organizations are revising their retirement plans to retain and attract staff and are increasingly updating them to become more like those found in the private sector, according to Transamerica.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions paid four executives a combined $3.8 million in severance packages, defying state officials' orders, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.
Healthcare CEOs see an average of $25 million in benefits as a result of being dismissed during a merger or takeover, according to a recent Alvarez & Marsal and Equilar study.
Seven of the top 10 occupations with the largest gains in income from 2012-16 are in healthcare, according to SmartAsset.
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House and Senate bills that propose to eliminate the tax loophole on deducting performance-based executive compensation may not limit massive executive pay packages, according to a Washington Post analysis.
Non-academic hospital system physicians earn up to $123,000 more per year than their academic counterparts, according to a report conducted by the Medical Group Management Association.
To ensure that executive compensation is working in their favor, investors can take a closer look at how companies are paying their CEOs, according to Investopedia.
UnitedHealth Group marginally raised its 2018 revenue outlook to between $223 billion and $225 billion Tuesday.
Following a lost bid to manage Delaware's Medicaid program, UnitedHealth Group will lay off 138 employees, The News Journal reports.