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Modern Healthcare: Healthcare costs vary widely by region
Read more: Modern Healthcare: Healthcare costs vary widely by regionBy: Maria Castellucci The best solutions to decrease the high costs of healthcare services may not be solved at the federal level but in states and their communities, a new study suggests. The report, published by researchers this week at the Health Care Cost Institute, found costs of services vary dramatically depending on a patient’s…
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NBC News: U.S. Health Care Prices Are All Over the Map, New Study Finds
Read more: NBC News: U.S. Health Care Prices Are All Over the Map, New Study FindsBy: Maggie Fox Why does a knee replacement cost $29,000 in Kansas but $40,000 in next-door Colorado? Health care prices are all over the map in the U.S., a new study finds. It digs deeply into the crazy pattern of health costs across the U.S. and shows there is very little consistency. The report from the…
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Slate: A Failed Cure for Health Care Costs
Read more: Slate: A Failed Cure for Health Care CostsBy: Helaine Olen It’s a new year, and you know what that means: Your health insurance deductible just reset. Which for many of us means looking forward to paying a significant amount out of pocket for health care until we’ve spent enough for our insurance payments to kick in. According to the Henry J. Kaiser…
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CNBC: Health-care spending increased at a faster pace in 2015 as prices rose
Read more: CNBC: Health-care spending increased at a faster pace in 2015 as prices roseBy: Dan Mangan Spending on health care for people who have private insurance accelerated last year, ending a two-year period of more modest spending growth, a new study finds. In 2015, overall spending for people with private health insurance increased by 4.6 percent, according to the Health Care Cost Institute report. Most of that increase,…
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Health Payer Intelligence: Deductibles, Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending Rose 3% in 2015
Read more: Health Payer Intelligence: Deductibles, Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending Rose 3% in 2015By: Vera Gruessner Healthcare spending within the private health insurance market has grown 4.6 percent in 2015, according to a press release from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI). This type of growth in spending is higher than in recent years. For instance, healthcare spending in 2014 saw a 2.6 percent rise while 2013 spending…
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Washington Post: How companies are quietly changing your health plan to make you pay more
Read more: Washington Post: How companies are quietly changing your health plan to make you pay moreBy: Carolyn Johnson While politicians have been embroiled in a fiery debate over President Obama’s signature health-care law, a quiet but profound shift is fundamentally reshaping how health insurance works for the roughly 155 million Americans who receive coverage through their employers. A national survey of employer health benefits released Wednesday shows how much deductibles…
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CNBC: High-deductible plans tied to lower health use, higher out-of-pocket spending
Read more: CNBC: High-deductible plans tied to lower health use, higher out-of-pocket spendingBy: Dan Mangan Your less expensive health insurance plan could cost you — even if you use less health care. People in so-called consumer-driven health plans tend to use fewer medical services than people with other types of coverage, a new study finds. But they also tend to spend substantially more out of their own…
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Kaiser Health News: As Childhood Diabetes Rates Rise, So Do Costs — And Families Feel the Pinch
Read more: Kaiser Health News: As Childhood Diabetes Rates Rise, So Do Costs — And Families Feel the PinchBy: Carmen Heredia Rodriguez Childhood diabetes rates are on the rise, and a report released Monday pointed to the impact that the cost of their care could have on families — even those who have employer-sponsored health insurance. The study, conducted by the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), found that children as old as 18…
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Star Tribune: The dollars pile up with diabetes
Read more: Star Tribune: The dollars pile up with diabetesBy: Christopher Snowbeck Per capita spending on patients with diabetes hit $16,021 in 2014, which was an increase of about 6 percent or $897 from the previous year, according to a report released Monday. The average person in an employer plan during 2014, meanwhile, wracked up $4,396 in medical spending, which was up 3 percent…
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U.S. News & World Report: Cost for Kids’ Medical Care Increasing
Read more: U.S. News & World Report: Cost for Kids’ Medical Care IncreasingBy: Kimberly Leonard U.S. CHILDREN COVERED by their parents’ employer insurance have made fewer visits to medical facilities and used less medical care in recent years, but spending on their care has gone up, according to a report released Monday. The report, from the Health Care Cost Institute, shows that from 2010 to 2014 spending…