HCCUR 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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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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GAO: Anesthesia Services: Differences between Private and Medicare Payments Likely Due to Providers’ Strong Negotiating Position
Read more: GAO: Anesthesia Services: Differences between Private and Medicare Payments Likely Due to Providers’ Strong Negotiating PositionHCCI’s 2018 HCCUR report was cited in a GAO study on Medicare payments for anesthesia services. From the report: “The Health Care Cost Institute calculated that in 2017 private insurance payments ranged from 2 to 7 times Medicare payments, on average, across six common services provided by anesthesiologists in 33 states. Wide state-to-state variation within…
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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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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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Los Angeles Times: Not everyone has eye-popping deductibles: How one union kept medical bills in check
Read more: Los Angeles Times: Not everyone has eye-popping deductibles: How one union kept medical bills in checkHCCI’s 2017 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report was cited in a Los Angeles Times article. From the article: “Between 2013 and 2017, the average price nationally for an inpatient hospital admission rose more than 15%, almost three times the rate of general inflation, according to an analysis of commercial insurance data by the Health…
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Health Affairs: Disinvesting In Primary Care?
Read more: Health Affairs: Disinvesting In Primary Care?By: Christopher Koller and Margaret O’Kane The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) released its analysis of 2016 health spending for a group of commercial insurers last month. The report is a trove of information that, like all good analyses, suggests more questions than it answers. Buried in the report—in figure 15—is an alarming trend that…
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The Hill: Americans using less health care, but paying more for it
Tags: HCCUR NewsRead more: The Hill: Americans using less health care, but paying more for itBy: Jessie Hellman Health-care spending has increased because prices are rising, not because Americans are using more health care, according to a new study released Tuesday. The report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) showed that total health-care spending grew by 4.6 percent per person from 2015 to 2016 even as utilization of services…
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Axios: We’re using less health care, but paying more
Tags: HCCUR NewsRead more: Axios: We’re using less health care, but paying moreBy: Sam Baker Health care spending is up. Way up. That’s because prices are up — not because we’re using more health care, according to newly published data from the Health Care Cost Institute. The numbers that matter: Health care spending grew by 4.5% from 2015 to 2016, yet utilization was steady — or, in…