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NPR: The Real Bachelor Party Hangover: A $12,460 ER Bill
Read more: NPR: The Real Bachelor Party Hangover: A $12,460 ER BillHCCI data on ER facility fees was cited in a NPR in a story about a $12,460 ER bill. From the article: “The Health Care Cost Institute, an independent, nonprofit health research firm, recently analyzed millions of insurance bills to get a better sense of the facility fees that ERs are charging. It found the charges nearly…
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Bloomberg: Big Hospitals Are Getting Bigger, Pushing U.S. Prices Higher
Read more: Bloomberg: Big Hospitals Are Getting Bigger, Pushing U.S. Prices HigherHCCI’s Hospital Concentration Index was featured in a report in Bloomberg. From the article: “The report relied on a measure commonly used in antitrust analysis that gauges how concentrated a market is based on the market share of competitors. It measured only the market for inpatient admissions, so it doesn’t reflect other services such as outpatient…
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LA Times: Trying to Shop for Medical Care? Lots of Luck with That
Read more: LA Times: Trying to Shop for Medical Care? Lots of Luck with ThatHCCI research on shoppable services was mentioned in an article written by the LA Times. From the article: “By one estimate by the Health Care Cost Institute, just 7% of total healthcare spending for Americans with job-based coverage was on medical services that could be considered ‘shoppable’ because the service required an out-of-pocket payment and the procedure could…
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Health Affairs: Surprise Billing: Choose Patients Over Profit
Read more: Health Affairs: Surprise Billing: Choose Patients Over ProfitHCCI’s research on median in-network rates was recently featured in a Health Affairs blog post on surprise billing. From the blog: “Most importantly, Congress should establish a locally based benchmark to determine the amount an insurer would be required to pay a provider for a surprise bill. Ideally, we’d set the benchmark at some multiple…
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CNBC: Eli Lilly Confirms Probe by New York’s Attorney General over Insulin Prices
Read more: CNBC: Eli Lilly Confirms Probe by New York’s Attorney General over Insulin PricesHCCI’s research on insulin prices was mentioned in a CNBC report. From the article: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates more than 30 million Americans have diabetes. The annual cost of insulin for people with Type 1 diabetes in the U.S. nearly doubled from 2012 to 2016 to $5,700 from $2,900, according to an analysis…
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NPR: $2,733 To Treat Iron-Poor Blood? Iron Infusions For Anemia Under Scrutiny
Read more: NPR: $2,733 To Treat Iron-Poor Blood? Iron Infusions For Anemia Under ScrutinyHCCI recently provided cost information for iron infusions for an NPR article. From the article: “An analysis of private insurance claims conducted by the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent research group funded by insurers, found that in 2017, private health plans paid $4,316 per visit, on average, if a patient received Injectafer infusions. Feraheme, the…
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The Wall Street Journal: Health-Care Spending Soars in New York State
Read more: The Wall Street Journal: Health-Care Spending Soars in New York StateHCCI’s report with the New York State Health Foundation on health care spending in New York was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article. From the article: “Health-care spending on New Yorkers who get insurance through work is higher and rising more sharply than the national average. The main reason, according to a new report,…
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The Economist: Will Transparent Pricing Make America’s Health Care Cheaper
Read more: The Economist: Will Transparent Pricing Make America’s Health Care CheaperHCCI’s Healthy Marketplace Index research on prices for specific services was recently featured in an article in the Economist Will transparent pricing make America’s health care cheaper? – Never a bargain https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/06/29/will-transparent-pricing-make-americas-health-care-cheaper
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Los Angeles Times: Soaring Insurance Deductibles and High Drug Prices Hit Sick Americans with a ‘Double Whammy’
Read more: Los Angeles Times: Soaring Insurance Deductibles and High Drug Prices Hit Sick Americans with a ‘Double Whammy’HCCI’s research on consumer-directed health plans was recently used to support the second in a series of articles by the Los Angeles Times on high-deductible health plans. From the article: “New research conducted in partnership with The Times for this project also shows that sick Americans use less healthcare when their plan requires them to pay…
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USA Today: ‘Really astonishing’: Average cost of hospital ER visit surges 176% in a decade, report says
Read more: USA Today: ‘Really astonishing’: Average cost of hospital ER visit surges 176% in a decade, report saysHCCI research presented at this year’s AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting on emergency room spending was recently featured in a story in USA today. From the article: “Hospital emergency rooms are more likely to charge pricier levels of care than a decade ago, generating bigger bills that consumers increasingly must pay with their own money, according…