What drives capital spending in health care? Follow the money.

This issue of Banking and Community Perspectives focuses on some nonlegislative efforts to foster healthier communities, particularly in low- and moderate-income areas. These efforts are led by both public and private organizations across the Federal Reserve's Eleventh District.

Across the country and the district, pharmacy schools look like the equivalent of a 90-day refill—a good supply, at least for the time being.

Innovations are changing how, where and when people receive pharmacy services. Not everyone is thrilled.

The pharmacy industry faces a multitude of challenges, and rural areas confront the possibility of losing pharmacy services.

Prescription benefit plans are squeezing retail pharmacies.

The clinically detailed risk information system for cost (CD-RISC) contains definitions for several hundred severity-adjusted conditions that can be used to predict future health care costs. We develop a prospective Medicare CD-RISC model using a 5-percent sample of Medicare beneficiaries and...

This paper considers the adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT) by physician clinics with ten or fewer physicians. The paper considers the theoretical economics literature on technology adoption for a new technology and has a place in the empirical tests of these models. The two major...

There has been an almost 60 percent increase in health care expenditures in the US in the past seven years. Employer-sponsored health coverage premiums have increased significantly (87 percent) in this same period. Besides the cost of care for chronic conditions such as migraine, arthritis and...