Geographic Variation
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Children’s Health Spending Report 2010-2014
Read more: Children’s Health Spending Report 2010-2014Children’s Health Spending: 2010-2014 examines spending on health care for children covered by employer-sponsored insurance from 2010 to 2014. For the first time, HCCI analyzed children’s health care spending trends at the state level, reporting on Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia. Key…
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Becker’s Hospital Review: No 2 prices the same – 13 different findings on healthcare price variation across the U.S.
Read more: Becker’s Hospital Review: No 2 prices the same – 13 different findings on healthcare price variation across the U.S.By: Kelly Gooch Commercially insured Americans in some states pay more than twice what their counterparts in other states pay for healthcare, according to a study from the Health Care Cost Institute. The study, published in Health Affairs, is accompanied by HCCI’s National Chartbook of Health Care Prices—2015, which highlights differences in prices for more…
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USA Today: Huge health care price differences even within same area, by state
Read more: USA Today: Huge health care price differences even within same area, by stateBy: Jayne O’Donnell Huge variations exist in the prices of some of the most common medical procedures across state lines, by according to a report major insurers released Wednesday, but some experts say the data is of little use to consumers who rarely know what they owe until the bills arrive. The insurer-funded Health Care…
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Modern Healthcare: The striking variation of commercial healthcare prices
Tags: Geographic VariationRead more: Modern Healthcare: The striking variation of commercial healthcare pricesBy: Bob Herman Price and utilization are the two essential elements of the nation’s health spending tab, and seemingly wild differences in prices for common medical procedures appear to be driving that bill up a lot. One of the most comprehensive, independent studies of commercial healthcare prices shows that employers and insurers that provide private…
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Vox: How much does the chicken pox vaccine cost? Depends on where you live
Read more: Vox: How much does the chicken pox vaccine cost? Depends on where you liveBy: Sarah Kliff How much you pay for health care often depends on one key fact: where you live. A new study of more than 1 billion medical bills makes this fact abundantly clear. It shows huge variation in the price of basic medical procedures like ultrasounds, annual physicals, or cataract removals. Consider this: An…
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NPR: That Surgery Might Cost You A Lot Less In Another Town
Read more: NPR: That Surgery Might Cost You A Lot Less In Another TownBy: Alison Kodjak Need knee replacement surgery? It may be worthwhile to head for Tucson. That’s because the average price for a knee replacement in the Arizona city is $21,976, about $38,000 less than it would in Sacramento, Calif. That’s according to a report issued Wednesday by the Health Care Cost Institute. The report, called…
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National Chartbook of Health Care Prices 2015
Read more: National Chartbook of Health Care Prices 2015The National Chartbook of Health Care Prices – 2015 and accompanying Health Affairs article “Prices For Common Medical Services Vary Substantially Among the Commercially Insured” illuminates differences in price for over 240 common medical services in 41 states and the District of Columbia. Among the commercially insured, wide variation in prices have some states paying…
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The Price-Quality Paradox in Health Care
Read more: The Price-Quality Paradox in Health CareThis data brief compares average state-level prices against quality measures for asthma, diabetes and hypertension care and finds that higher prices for medical services are not always indicative of higher quality of care.
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Healthy Marketplace Index – 2015
Read more: Healthy Marketplace Index – 2015The Healthy Marketplace Index is a series of metrics that measure the economic performance of health care markets across the country. The HMI was developed with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Healthy Marketplace Index Report (HMI) shows the economic performance of more than 40 health care markets across the country. Developed by the…
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Taking the Pulse of Health Care Markets
Read more: Taking the Pulse of Health Care MarketsThis data brief discusses patterns in the price and utilization indices reported in the 2015 Healthy Marketplace Index Report.