"Employers are focusing on recalibrating more than cutting and are continuing to invest in care benefits even as they trim other costs," Care.com reports.

Americans have a pessimistic view of public health, even as most report their own health as mostly good.

46% of women between the ages of 18 and 35 who have visited a doctor in the past two years say they've experienced a negative interaction with a health care provider.

Between 2019 and 2022, 46 states saw jumps in the amount of anxiety and depression prescriptions filled.

Retirees will need to save hundreds of thousands of dollars to be 90% certain they can cover their post-retirement medical costs.

The analysis notes that the reported hospital prices often don't include data on the contracting method and payer class, which hospitals are not mandated to share by the new federal regulations.

Though limited research exists on marijuana's long-term health effects, legislation was passed in 2022 that opens up more opportunities for researchers to explore the impacts of CBD.

"One of the key arguments for hospital mergers and practice acquisition was that health systems would deliver better-value care for patients," Nancy Beaulieu says.