Spending
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The Wall Street Journal: Health-Care Spending Soars in New York State
Read more: The Wall Street Journal: Health-Care Spending Soars in New York StateHCCI’s report with the New York State Health Foundation on health care spending in New York was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article. From the article: “Health-care spending on New Yorkers who get insurance through work is higher and rising more sharply than the national average. The main reason, according to a new report,…
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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, Utilization
Read 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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Comparing Commercial and Medicare Rates for Select Anesthesia, Emergency Room, and Radiology Services by State
Tags: Commercially Insured, Emergency Room, Medicare, Physician Spending, Prices, Spending, Surprise BillingRead more: Comparing Commercial and Medicare Rates for Select Anesthesia, Emergency Room, and Radiology Services by StateCommittees in both the House and Senate have advanced legislation that includes measures to address “surprise bills.” A surprise bill results when a person unknowingly receives medical care from a provider that is not part of their insurer’s network. Both pieces of legislation set a benchmark for out-of-network payments. Those benchmarks are determined based on…
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Los Angeles Times: Soaring Insurance Deductibles and High Drug Prices Hit Sick Americans with a ‘Double Whammy’
Read more: Los Angeles Times: Soaring Insurance Deductibles and High Drug Prices Hit Sick Americans with a ‘Double Whammy’HCCI’s research on consumer-directed health plans was recently used to support the second in a series of articles by the Los Angeles Times on high-deductible health plans. From the article: “New research conducted in partnership with The Times for this project also shows that sick Americans use less healthcare when their plan requires them to pay…
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USA Today: ‘Really astonishing’: Average cost of hospital ER visit surges 176% in a decade, report says
Read more: USA Today: ‘Really astonishing’: Average cost of hospital ER visit surges 176% in a decade, report saysHCCI research presented at this year’s AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting on emergency room spending was recently featured in a story in USA today. From the article: “Hospital emergency rooms are more likely to charge pricier levels of care than a decade ago, generating bigger bills that consumers increasingly must pay with their own money, according…
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Los Angeles Times: Health Insurance Deductibles Soar, Leaving Americans with Unaffordable Bills
Read more: Los Angeles Times: Health Insurance Deductibles Soar, Leaving Americans with Unaffordable BillsHCCI’s research on consumer-directed health plans was recently used to support the first in a series of articles by the Los Angeles Times on high-deductible health plans. From the article: “The challenges are most severe for people with the highest deductibles, according to the poll: Nearly half of those in a plan with at least…
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Lower Health Care Spending and Use for People with Chronic Conditions in Consumer-Directed Health Plans
Read more: Lower Health Care Spending and Use for People with Chronic Conditions in Consumer-Directed Health PlansTo better understand differences in spending and use across types of health plans, we examine individuals enrolled in consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) and individuals enrolled in non-CDHP health plans. CDHPs are a type of HDHP that typically include a health savings account (HSA) or a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA). We analyzed a sample of over…
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: Health Care Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare
Tags: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Peer Reviewed Journals, Spending, UtilizationRead more: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: Health Care Spending and Utilization in Public and Private MedicareAbstract: We compare health care spending in public and private Medicare using newly available claims data from Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers. MA insurer revenues are 30 percent higher than their health care spending. Adjusting for enrollee mix, health care spending per enrollee in MA is 9 to 30 percent lower than in Traditional Medicare (TM),…
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Health Affairs: Variation In Health Spending Growth For The Privately Insured From 2007 to 2014
Read more: Health Affairs: Variation In Health Spending Growth For The Privately Insured From 2007 to 2014ABSTRACT We examined the growth in health spending on people with employer-sponsored private insurance in the period 2007–14. Our analysis relied on information from the Health Care Cost Institute data set, which includes insurance claims from Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare. In the study period private health spending per enrollee grew 16.9 percent, while growth in…