Inpatient Spending
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Health Care Spending in New York Growing Faster Than Rest of U.S.
Tags: Commercially Insured, Drug Spending, Geographic Variation, Inpatient Spending, New York, Outpatient Spending, Physician Spending, Prices, Spending, UtilizationRead more: Health Care Spending in New York Growing Faster Than Rest of U.S.Spending per person in employer-sponsored plans reaches all-time high of $6,335 Health care spending for the average New Yorker with employer-sponsored health insurance is increasing faster in New York State than the rest of the country, according to a new analysis released today by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) and the Health Care…
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2017 Annual Health Care Cost and Utilization Report Webinar
Tags: Drug Spending, HCCUR, Inpatient Spending, Outpatient Spending, Physician Spending, Prices, Utilization
Read more: 2017 Annual Health Care Cost and Utilization Report WebinarHCCI recently held a webinar to discuss the 2017 Annual Health Care Cost and Utilization Report.
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2017 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report
Tags: Drug Spending, HCCUR, Inpatient Spending, Out-of-Pocket, Outpatient Spending, Physician Spending, Prices, Utilization
Read more: 2017 Health Care Cost and Utilization ReportThe 2017 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report shows that spending per privately insured person grew by 4.2 percent, the second year in a row of spending growth over four percent. Price increases were the primary driver. The report covers the period 2013 through 2017 and includes claims data from four national insurance companies: Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, and…
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Health Affairs: Hospital Prices Grew Substantially Faster Than Physician Prices For Hospital-Based Care In 2007–14
Read more: Health Affairs: Hospital Prices Grew Substantially Faster Than Physician Prices For Hospital-Based Care In 2007–14Abstract: Evidence suggests that growth in providers’ prices drives growth in health care spending on the privately insured. However, existing work has not systematically differentiated between the growth rate of hospital prices and that of physician prices. We analyzed growth in both types of prices for inpatient and hospital-based outpatient services using actual negotiated prices…
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Health Affairs: Health Care Spending Under Employer-Sponsored Insurance: A 10-Year Retrospective
Tags: Commercially Insured, Drug Spending, Health Affairs, Inpatient Spending, Outpatient Spending, Peer Reviewed Journals, Physician SpendingRead more: Health Affairs: Health Care Spending Under Employer-Sponsored Insurance: A 10-Year RetrospectiveABSTRACT Using a national sample of health care claims data from the Health Care Cost Institute, we found that total spending per capita (not including premiums) on health services for enrollees in employer-sponsored insurance plans increased by 44 percent from 2007 through 2016 (average annual growth of 4.1 percent). Spending increased across all major categories…
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics: The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured
Read more: The Quarterly Journal of Economics: The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately InsuredAbstract: We use insurance claims data covering 28% of individuals with employer-sponsored health insurance in the United States to study the variation in health spending on the privately insured, examine the structure of insurer-hospital contracts, and analyze the variation in hospital prices across the nation. Health spending per privately insured beneficiary differs by a factor…
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Vox: The absurdity of American health care pricing, in one chart
Read more: Vox: The absurdity of American health care pricing, in one chartResearch using HCCI data shows the different prices patients face for the same procedures performed in the same hospitals. “a new paper from economists Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen sheds light on another fascinating type of variation: price differences within a single hospital. Their research is the first I’ve seen that…
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2016 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report
Tags: Drug Spending, Geographic Variation, HCCUR, Inpatient Spending, Out-of-Pocket, Outpatient Spending, Physician Spending, Prices, Utilization
Read more: 2016 Health Care Cost and Utilization ReportThe 2016 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report shows that spending per privately insured person grew by 4.6 percent, faster than in previous years. Price increases were the primary driver. The report covers the period 2012 through 2016 and includes claims data from four national insurance companies: Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, and UnitedHealthcare. The data in…
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INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing: How do the Hospital Prices Paid by Medicare Advantage Plans and Commercial Plans Compare with Medicare Fee-for-Service Prices?
Tags: Commercially Insured, Inpatient Spending, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Peer Reviewed JournalsRead more: INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing: How do the Hospital Prices Paid by Medicare Advantage Plans and Commercial Plans Compare with Medicare Fee-for-Service Prices?ABSTRACT The prices that private insurers pay hospitals have received considerable attention in recent years, but most of that literature has focused on the commercially insured population. Although nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, little is known about the prices paid to hospitals by the private insurers that…
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NBER: The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured
Tags: Commercially Insured, Inpatient Spending, Market Concentration, NBER, Outpatient Spending, Peer Reviewed JournalsRead more: NBER: The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately InsuredABSTRACT: We use insurance claims data covering 28 percent of individuals with employer-sponsored health insurance in the US to study the variation in health spending on the privately insured, examine the structure of insurer-hospital contracts, and analyze the variation in hospital prices across the nation. Health spending per privately insured beneficiary differs by a factor of…
