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NPR: The COVID Relief Bill Expands the Affordable Care Act. It Doesn’t Come Cheap
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Read more: NPR: The COVID Relief Bill Expands the Affordable Care Act. It Doesn’t Come CheapHCCI’s research on commercial insurance payments to providers was mentioned in an NPR article on recent expansions to the Affordable Care Act. From the article: “For example, health insurers in the Atlanta area pay primary care physicians $93 on average for a basic patient visit, according to an analysis of 2017 commercial insurance data by…
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USA Today: A National System to Prioritize COVID-19 Vaccines has Largely Failed as States Rely on Their Own Systems
Read more: USA Today: A National System to Prioritize COVID-19 Vaccines has Largely Failed as States Rely on Their Own SystemsHCCI’s President and CEO Niall Brennan was quoted in a USA Today article on failures of the federal COVID-19 vaccination system. From the article: “‘They literally thought their job stopped with vaccine development,’ said Niall Brennan, CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute and former chief data officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. ‘No, your…
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Wall Street Journal: How Much Does a C-Section Cost? At One Hospital, Anywhere From $6,241 to $60,584.
Tags: TransparencyRead more: Wall Street Journal: How Much Does a C-Section Cost? At One Hospital, Anywhere From $6,241 to $60,584.HCCI’s President and CEO Niall Brennan was featured in a Wall Street Journal Article on hospital price transparency disclosures at Sutter Health. From the article: “‘It is shining a light on the insanity of U.S. healthcare pricing,’ said Niall Brennan, chief executive of the Health Care Cost Institute, a nonprofit that analyzes medical costs. ‘It’s at…
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HCCI Launches New, Expanded Dataset
Read more: HCCI Launches New, Expanded DatasetNew dataset is 25% larger than original HCCI dataset, containing health insurance claims for 55 million people, one third of people with employer-based health insurance in the United States WASHINGTON, DC (February 2, 2021) — The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) today announced the launch of its new health care claims dataset for research. The…
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Modern Healthcare: A Peek Behind the Curtain on Hospital Prices
Read more: Modern Healthcare: A Peek Behind the Curtain on Hospital PricesHCCI’s research on the prices private insurers pay versus Medicare was featured in Modern Healthcare on the recent CMS price transparency rule. From the article: “That bright light illuminates hospitals’ most lucrative revenue streams. Private insurers pay an estimated 51 percent to 200 percent more than the federal Medicare program, according to a recent Health Care Cost…
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Modern Healthcare: Hospitals Slow to Disclose Their Payer-Negotiated Rates
Read more: Modern Healthcare: Hospitals Slow to Disclose Their Payer-Negotiated RatesHCCI’s President and CEO Niall Brennan was featured in a Modern Healthcare article on hospital compliance with CMS’s price transparency rule. From the article: ” ‘Hospitals have opposed this from the get-go. I don’t think they should be facing implementation challenges,’ Health Care Cost Institute CEO Niall Brennan said. ‘These are large, multimillion, and, in…
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Healthcare Dive: CMS Audits Small Slice of Hospitals for Price Transparency, Probes Complaints
Read more: Healthcare Dive: CMS Audits Small Slice of Hospitals for Price Transparency, Probes ComplaintsHCCI’s President and CEO Niall Brennan was featured in a an article on CMS’s price transparency rule. From the article: “It’s ‘frustratingly incomplete,’ said Niall Brennan, president and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute, which compiles claims data from big payers including Aetna and Kaiser Permanente. ‘There is no real mechanism to figure out how…
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Modern Healthcare: Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway disband Haven
Tags: HCCUR NewsRead more: Modern Healthcare: Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway disband HavenHCCI’s 2018 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report (HCCUR) was featured in Modern Healthcare. From the article: “Per capita health spending for the 160 million Americans in employer-sponsored health plans grew by 4.4% in 2018, the third consecutive year of increases above 4%, according to the latest annual spending report by the Health Care Cost…
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Forbes: Price Transparency: A Gift To Americans In The New Year
Tags: TransparencyRead more: Forbes: Price Transparency: A Gift To Americans In The New YearHCCI’s research on shoppable services and the prices of vaginal and Cesarean births were featured in a Forbes article on a new CMS price transparency rule. From the article: “New parents in the San Francisco area can expect to pay anywhere from around $11,000 to over $23,000 for a vaginal birth and between roughly $15,000…
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Modern Healthcare: Targeting High-Risk Cancer Patients with Genetics
Read more: Modern Healthcare: Targeting High-Risk Cancer Patients with GeneticsHCCI’s research on utilization of preventive care services during the coronavirus pandemic was featured in Modern Healthcare. From the article: “A Health Care Cost Institute analysis of data from various payers found mammograms were down 24% and colonoscopies were down 33% as of August.” Targeting high-risk cancer patients with genetics As cancer screening rates have…