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New year, new health benefits? Here’s how to keep your out-of-pocket costs down.

The good news is that you won’t need to relearn the basics if your plan is changing in 2025. The bad news is that the risk of unexpected bills remains, in part because the fine print for most policies “can get very complicated,” said Gary Young, director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare […]

Hospitals face rough waters from high costs

In particular, labor costs are still very high in some regions, Gary Young, a health policy professor at Northeastern University, told Axios. “Recruiting a nurse can be incredibly expensive on the West Coast and other parts of the country. There’s still margin pressure,” he said.

With unvaccinated patients filling most hospital beds, should they pay more for health insurance?

Gary Young, J.D., Ph.D., Director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, said adopting this kind of policy could be a tricky path to follow from a legal standpoint.

Healthcare workers urge Americans to ‘scale back’ Thanksgiving gatherings

Gary Young, an expert in health policy at Northeastern University, said hospitals are already facing staffing shortages and extreme financial pressures from the pandemic, evidenced by hospital closures and layoffs at a time of unprecedented demand. “There are still many hospitals, particularly in rural areas, that are going to be overwhelmed,” said Young. “The preparation […]

Trump Team Hits Brakes On Law That Would Curb Unneeded Medicare CT Scans, MRIs

“These delays mean that many more inappropriate imaging procedures will be performed, wasting financial resources and subjecting patients to services they do not need,” says Gary Young, director of the Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research in Boston.

NBC News

Hospitals made $21B on Wall Street last year, but are patients seeing those profits?

“There are some hospital systems that are fairly profitable, but many are not,” said Gary Young, director of center for health policy and healthcare research at Northeastern University. “A general principle is that about one-third have margins that are above zero… probably about one-third of hospitals are pretty close to zero, particularly when you talk […]

The Times UK

Will Amazon be good for America’s health?

Gary Young, director of the health policy centre at Northeastern University, said: “Don’t discount Amazon’s ambition. Amazon has a certain way of looking at the world and a certain way of engaging consumers. They believe very firmly that they can do things better.”

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase to tackle employee health care costs, delivery

These three “iconic” companies collaborating will attract “a lot of attention and it already has,” said Gary Young, director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University. “It signals a certain frustration with the status quo and the existing health care system,” he said.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Minnesota hospitals’ spending on community health at risk

A study in the journal Health Affairs this month found that hospitals with higher charity care amounts tend to spend less on community health programs. So an increase in uninsured patients might create “financial pressures” for hospitals to spend even less on them, said Gary Young, the study’s lead author and a health policy researcher […]

Politico

Trump’s pick to run HHS is in front of the Senate again today

Hospitals’ community benefit didn’t really budge after the ACA. That’s according to a study led by Gary Young of Northeastern University, which found that tax-exempt hospitals spent 8.1 percent of revenue on community benefit in 2014, a slight bump from 7.6 percent in 2010 but in line with historic trends. The biggest portion of that […]

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After UnitedHealthcare shooting, industry insider talks problems in health care

Gary Young, director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, sheds some light on problems facing the health care industry.

New neffy nasal spray alternative to the EpiPen could be ‘a gamechanger’ for people with allergies

Northeastern experts say this new product addresses concerns people have about Epipens, including the cost and method of delivery.

New treatments for Alzheimer’s cost tens of thousands of dollars a year. Here’s why

Nearly 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, but new drugs for the disease are costly. Is there a way to improve this?

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With cancer cases rising in young people, could earlier screenings help save lives?

Cancer cases are on the rise, especially among younger people. Will screenings begin at an earlier age?

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Do drug ads make you cringe? Should they be allowed? Debate follows Super Bowl commercials seen by millions

As drug advertisements expand to ever-wider audiences, Northeastern experts debate whether such advertisements should be allowed.

Students putting headphones on a person for an MRI test.

Full-body MRIs are the latest celebrity-endorsed health craze. Will they save your life?

Northeastern health care researchers say the screenings espoused by Kim Kardashian and other celebrities don’t make sense on a population level and present potential challenges for individuals who have them.

How is rural health care impacted when more doctors go to work directly for hospital systems?

Brady Post, associate professor and health services researcher at Northeastern, will use a five-year research career development award to understand what happens when hospitals buy out private physician practices.

Northeastern University researchers in business, health sciences, engineering, and public policy are working to curb opioid addiction before it starts

Northeastern researchers are working to determine the likelihood of becoming addicted to opioids, how to keep unused prescriptions off the streets, and whether a drug made to curb opioid cravings can be used to prevent addiction.

Why we should take Amazon’s ambitions to disrupt healthcare seriously

In a move that could reshape American healthcare, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase are partnering to cut healthcare costs for their employees, numbering nearly half a million. Professor Gary Young, a health policy expert, says change is coming, but not overnight, even "as powerful and magical as Amazon may be."

What’s in the Senate’s new healthcare bill?

Senate Republicans released their bill to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s healthcare law on Thursday. We asked three faculty members to analyze the measure and what come's next.

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