Publications
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Selected Health Care Trends for Young Adults: 2007-2012
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Emergency Room, Inpatient Spending, Mental Health and Substance Use, Outpatient Spending
Read more: Selected Health Care Trends for Young Adults: 2007-2012This issue brief is one of the first to examine health care trends for young adults (ages 19-25) with employer-sponsored insurance before and after implementation of Section 1001 of the Affordable Care Act that allows parents to include their adult children in family health plans.
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2007-2011 Vermont Health Care Cost and Utilization Report
Read more: 2007-2011 Vermont Health Care Cost and Utilization ReportThe 2007-2011 Vermont Health Care Cost and Utilization Report compares national and Vermont health care trends for the privately insured. The report finds that Vermonters with employer sponsored health insurance spent less on health care, but their spending grew faster than the national average. The report was prepared in cooperation with the Green Mountain Care Board. Key Findings…
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Health Affairs: Health Spending Slowdown Is Mostly Due To Economic Factors, Not Structural Change In The Health Care Sector
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Commercially Insured, Health Affairs, Market Concentration, Peer Reviewed JournalsRead more: Health Affairs: Health Spending Slowdown Is Mostly Due To Economic Factors, Not Structural Change In The Health Care SectorABSTRACT: The source of the recent slowdown in health spending growth remains unclear. We used new and unique data on privately insured people to estimate the effect of the economic slowdown that began in December 2007 on the rate of growth in health spending. By exploiting regional variations in the severity of the slowdown, we determined…
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Children’s Health Spending: 2009-2012
Read more: Children’s Health Spending: 2009-2012The Children’s Health Care Spending: 2009-2012 report shows that spending on health care for privately insured children increased between 2009 and 2012, rising an average 5.5 percent a year, with more dollars spent on boys than girls, and higher spending on infants and toddlers (ages 0-3) than any other children’s age group. Key Findings…
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Key Findings from Children’s Health Spending 2009-2012 Report
Read more: Key Findings from Children’s Health Spending 2009-2012 ReportThis issue brief summarizes the main findings of the Health Care Cost Institute’s (HCCI’s) Children’s Health Spending: 2009-2012.
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Health Affairs: Trends Underlying Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Growth For Americans Younger Than Age Sixty-Five
Read more: Health Affairs: Trends Underlying Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Growth For Americans Younger Than Age Sixty-FiveABSTRACT Little is known about the trends in health care spending for the 156 million Americans who are younger than age sixty-five and enrolled in employer-sponsored health insurance. Using a new source of health insurance claims data, we estimated per capita spending, utilization, and prices for this population between 2007 and 2011. During this period…
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Health Care Costs from Birth to Death
Tags: Children, Chronic Conditions, Commercially Insured, Out-of-Pocket, Prices, Society of Actuaries
Read more: Health Care Costs from Birth to DeathHealth Care Costs from Birth to Death examines health care spending from birth to age 90 for people covered by commercial health insurance and for those covered by Medicare fee-for-service. The research sponsored by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) using data from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) estimates that the average 55-year-old retiree will…
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The Impact of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act on Inpatient Admissions
Read more: The Impact of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act on Inpatient AdmissionsThe 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) sought to improve access to mental health and substance use services. The Health Care Cost Institute, Inc. (HCCI) analyzed mental health, substance use, and medical/surgical inpatient per capita spending, utilization, prices, and out-of-pocket payments for individuals younger than age 65 and covered by employer-sponsored health…
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Changes in Health Care Spending in 2011
Read more: Changes in Health Care Spending in 2011A summary of HCCI’s 2011 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report.