Outpatient Spending
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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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Medical Care: Competition in Outpatient Procedure Markets
Read more: Medical Care: Competition in Outpatient Procedure MarketsAbstract Background: More than half of all medical procedures performed in the United States occur in an outpatient setting, yet few studies have explored how competition among ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospitals affects prices for commercially insured outpatient services. Objectives: We examined the association between prices for commercially insured outpatient procedures and competition among ASCs and…
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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 Spending
Read 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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Wall Street Journal: Behind Your Rising Health-Care Bills: Secret Hospital Deals that Squelch Competition
Read more: Wall Street Journal: Behind Your Rising Health-Care Bills: Secret Hospital Deals that Squelch CompetitionHCCI data was featured in The Wall Street Journal showing that insurers pay higher prices for some services performed on an outpatient basis that could also be performed in doctors offices.
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ER facility prices grew in tandem with faster-growing charges from 2009-2016
Read more: ER facility prices grew in tandem with faster-growing charges from 2009-2016HCCI often reports the prices of health care services, defined as the average amount a provider is paid for a given service based on negotiations with health care insurers. These prices typically represent a portion of charges, which are the amounts health care providers bill for the procedures they perform. The charge amount is often…
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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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Health Leaders: ER Spending Rise Driven by high-severity cases
Read more: Health Leaders: ER Spending Rise Driven by high-severity casesBy: John Commins A review of emergency department claims for employer-sponsored plans from 2009 through 2016 found that the average prices for higher severity billing codes rose faster than lower severity codes. Emergency department spending per employer-sponsored plan enrollee increased 99% from 2009 to 2016, even as overall ED use for that cohort flat-lined, the…
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Modern Healthcare: ER spending rises with increasing prices, severity of visits
Read more: Modern Healthcare: ER spending rises with increasing prices, severity of visitsBy: Shelby Livingston Even though emergency department use has stayed the same, ED spending per member nearly doubled from 2009 to 2016 as the severity of ED visits and the prices associated with those visits increased, new data from the Health Care Cost Institute shows. The not-for-profit HCCI analyzed employer-sponsored insurance claims for the five procedure…