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Research Collaborative Releases Major New Collection of North Carolina Health Care Spending Data
Read more: Research Collaborative Releases Major New Collection of North Carolina Health Care Spending DataHCCI, Duke, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina release interactive data on state health care spending to inform the public and policymakers. DURHAM, NC – Researchers at The Health Care Cost Institute, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University School of Medicine Department of Population Health Sciences, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross…
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Time: The Difficulty Of Counting the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Full Death Toll
Tags: COVID-19Read more: Time: The Difficulty Of Counting the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Full Death TollHCCI’s research on daily deaths during the coronavirus pandemic was featured in a Time article. From the article: “City health officials reported about 200 at-home deaths per day during the height of the pandemic, compared with a daily average of 35 between 2013 and 2017. Again, experts believe that excess is presumably caused either directly…
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The New York Times: Most Coronavirus Tests Cost About $100. Why Did One Cost $2,315?
Tags: Administered Drugs, Commercially Insured, Drug Spending, Inpatient Spending, Outpatient Spending, Prices, The New York TimesRead more: The New York Times: Most Coronavirus Tests Cost About $100. Why Did One Cost $2,315?HCCI’s research with iFHP on international comparisons of health care prices was cited in an article in The New York Times on COVID-19 test prices. From the article: “How can a simple coronavirus test cost $100 in one lab and 2,200 percent more in another? It comes back to a fundamental fact about the American…
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CNN: Daily deaths in US now more than 10% higher than in previous years
Read more: CNN: Daily deaths in US now more than 10% higher than in previous yearsHCCI’s research on daily deaths during the coronavirus pandemic was featured on CNN. From the article: “The number of people dying each day in the United States since early April has been consistently more than 10% higher than in previous years, according to a new report from the Health Care Cost Institute in Washington. The…
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An Inflection Point for HCCI: Upcoming Releases, New COVID-19 Projects & Expanded Dataset
Read more: An Inflection Point for HCCI: Upcoming Releases, New COVID-19 Projects & Expanded DatasetIt’s been a while since my last broad-based update on HCCI’s work. With so much going on in the world, I want to bring you up to speed on the many activities underway at HCCI, including our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and our transition to a new dataset that will incorporate claims from Aetna,…
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Health Affairs: Despite The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, COVID-19 Evaluation Is Not Necessarily Free
Read more: Health Affairs: Despite The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, COVID-19 Evaluation Is Not Necessarily FreeHCCI’s 2018 Annual Report was cited in a Health Affairs article on coverage of COVID-19 testing. From the article: “Consider cost sharing for a privately insured patient under seven possible evaluation scenarios, shown in exhibit 1. First, if the patient is evaluated in person but does not receive any testing, cost sharing could be imposed…
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MarketWatch: How much does it cost to get tested for the coronavirus? Unfortunately the answer could depend on how good your insurance is
Read more: MarketWatch: How much does it cost to get tested for the coronavirus? Unfortunately the answer could depend on how good your insurance isHCCI’s research on emergency room billing was cited in a MarketWatch article on coronavirus testing. From the article: “It’s also important to get checked out by a doctor first because if you skip the doctor and go straight to the emergency room, you run the risk of your insurer refusing to cover the ER visit,…
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The Dallas Morning News: Texans are paying more for health insurance — and using it less
Read more: The Dallas Morning News: Texans are paying more for health insurance — and using it lessHCCI’s 2017 Annual Report and Healthy Marketplace Index were featured in an article in The Dallas Morning News. Texans are paying more for health insurance — and using it less Nearly everyone is spending more on health care, often a lot more. But did you realize people are using it less? Utilization of health care…
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HCCI releases 2018 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report
Tags: Drug Spending, HCCI News, HCCUR, HCCUR News, Inpatient Spending, Outpatient Spending, Physician Spending, Prices, UtilizationRead more: HCCI releases 2018 Health Care Cost and Utilization ReportPer-Person Health Care Spending Grew 18% from 2014 to 2018, Driven Mostly by Prices After remaining stable for several years, utilization increased slightly in 2018 Access the report here. WASHINGTON D.C. — Average employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) spending rose to $5,892 per person in 2018, according to the Health Care Cost Institute’s annual Health Care Cost…
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Kaiser Health News: Women Shouldn’t Get A Bill For An IUD … But Sometimes They Do
Read more: Kaiser Health News: Women Shouldn’t Get A Bill For An IUD … But Sometimes They DoHCCI data was recently cited in a Kaiser Health News story on IUD billing. From the article: “In all likelihood, most women probably won’t get a bill for IUD insertion or a birth control prescription. Data compiled by the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent research group funded by insurers, suggested that in 2017 fewer…