HCCI News
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HCCI Releases 2020 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report
Read more: HCCI Releases 2020 Health Care Cost and Utilization ReportData show dramatic drop in medical service use, lower out-of-pocket spending but rise in prescription drug spending WASHINGTON, May 25, 2022 — A new report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) shows how the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic drastically shifted the ways Americans interacted with the health care system. Even though hundreds of…
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Katie Martin Named New President and Chief Executive Officer of HCCI
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Read more: Katie Martin Named New President and Chief Executive Officer of HCCIJanuary 10, 2022 08:30 AM Eastern Standard Time WASHINGTON— Today, the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) Governing Board announced it had selected Katie Martin as its next President and Chief Executive Officer. Martin is a nationally recognized leader in health policy, with a career-long commitment to public service; she brings evidence and analytics to the most critical…
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Winners of COVID-19 Research Accelerator Grants Announced
Read more: Winners of COVID-19 Research Accelerator Grants AnnouncedSAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, June 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, the COVID-19 Research Consortium, the Health Care Cost Institute, and Datavant announced 15 winners of the first Research Accelerator grants, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant program’s mission is to ensure that researchers have the resources they need to leverage…
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COVID Research Accelerator Launched: 1M dollars for research teams leveraging the COVID-19 Research Database
Read more: COVID Research Accelerator Launched: 1M dollars for research teams leveraging the COVID-19 Research DatabaseThe COVID-19 Research Database Consortium announces new funding opportunity for research teams leveraging Real World Data available to inform medical interventions and targeted mitigation policies. [San Francisco, California] May 4, 2021 – Datavant, the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), and the COVID-19 Research Database Consortium announced the launch of a grant program today, in collaboration…
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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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Health Care Cost Institute: Wide Variation in Commercial Prices vs. Medicare Rates Across & Within U.S. States
Tags: HCCI NewsRead more: Health Care Cost Institute: Wide Variation in Commercial Prices vs. Medicare Rates Across & Within U.S. StatesPolicy Proposals Based on Medicare Rates Could Have Dramatically Different Geographic Impacts WASHINGTON D.C. — The average commercial cost of medical professional services compared to the rate Medicare pays is 122% nationally, and ranges from a low of 98% in Alabama to a high of 188% in Wisconsin, according to a new report from the…
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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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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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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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HCCI Announces Major New Funding Commitment from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Read more: HCCI Announces Major New Funding Commitment from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation$2 million grant will support HCCI’s ongoing work to study drivers of health care spending WASHINGTON (December 23, 2019) — The The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) today announced a $2 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that will support a significant expansion of HCCI’s commercial claims data. With new data sources,…