Prices
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Slate: A Failed Cure for Health Care Costs
Read more: Slate: A Failed Cure for Health Care CostsBy: Helaine Olen It’s a new year, and you know what that means: Your health insurance deductible just reset. Which for many of us means looking forward to paying a significant amount out of pocket for health care until we’ve spent enough for our insurance payments to kick in. According to the Henry J. Kaiser…
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CNBC: Health-care spending increased at a faster pace in 2015 as prices rose
Read more: CNBC: Health-care spending increased at a faster pace in 2015 as prices roseBy: Dan Mangan Spending on health care for people who have private insurance accelerated last year, ending a two-year period of more modest spending growth, a new study finds. In 2015, overall spending for people with private health insurance increased by 4.6 percent, according to the Health Care Cost Institute report. Most of that increase,…
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Necessary versus Sufficient Claims Data
Read more: Necessary versus Sufficient Claims DataThis data brief compares membership characteristics and health care service prices in non-ERISA and ERISA populations. The results suggest that non-ERISA data may be sufficient for policy relevant analyses, even when ERISA data is not available.
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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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U.S. News & World Report: Cost for Kids’ Medical Care Increasing
Read more: U.S. News & World Report: Cost for Kids’ Medical Care IncreasingBy: Kimberly Leonard U.S. CHILDREN COVERED by their parents’ employer insurance have made fewer visits to medical facilities and used less medical care in recent years, but spending on their care has gone up, according to a report released Monday. The report, from the Health Care Cost Institute, shows that from 2010 to 2014 spending…
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CNBC: Children are using health services less – but medical costs still rising
Read more: CNBC: Children are using health services less – but medical costs still risingBy: Dan Mangan Kids are going to the doctor’s office and emergency rooms less often, and even using fewer prescription drugs — but overall health spending on children is still going up. A study released Monday by the Health Care Cost Institute indicates that price increases for health services and brand-name drugs were the biggest…
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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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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.