Annual Reports
HCCI’s Health Care Cost and Utilization Reports

Yearly reviews of spending, price and utilization trends for commercially-insured Americans. Learn more about our methodology, definitions, and other resources.

Aug
09

Health Affairs: What Is Driving Health Care Spending Upward In States With Cost Growth Targets?

HCCI's 2019 HCCUR was featured in a Health Affairs article on increases in health care spending.  From the article: "Price increases in most years have been highest in the commercial market. While there is some variation across states, a national analysis of commercial claim data by the Health Care Cost Institute found that from 2015 to 2019, approximately two-thirds of the increase in spendi...

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Aug
02

Price Markups for Clinical Labs: Employer‑based Insurance Pays Hospital Outpatient Departments 3X More Than Physician Offices and Independent Labs for Identical Tests

The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) in collaboration with West Health conducted an analysis of the high prices that employer-based insurance pays hospital outpatient departments for clinical lab tests. We found that insurers are paying 3 times more for identical tests (such as simple blood and urine tests) when billed by hospital outpatient departments compared to physician offices and inde...

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Jul
28

Center for American Progress: Employer- and Worker-Led Efforts To Lower Health Insurance Costs

HCCI's 2019 HCCUR was featured in a Center for American Progress report on employer- and worker-led efforts to lower health insurance costs. From the article: "Rising health care prices—not utilization—is the primary driver of the rising cost of commercial insurance." Employer- and Worker-Led Efforts To Lower Health Insurance Costs - Center for American Progress Individual employers have limited a...

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Jul
20

International comparisons of health care prices from the 2019 iFHP study

The International Federation of Health Plans (iFHP), an executive network of the global health insurance industry based in London, in partnership with the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) in the United States, and iFHP member companies in multiple countries, today published the latest International Health Cost Comparison Report. The report compares the median prices paid by a sample of private he...

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Jul
13

Privately Insured Individuals with Diabetes Spend Twice as Much Out-of-Pocket on Health Care as those without Diabetes

Over 10% of the U.S. population— more than 34 million individuals— lives with diabetes, with 1.5 million new cases diagnosed each year. As people with diabetes manage this chronic condition, they often pay substantial amounts out of their own pockets on medical care and prescription medications. Using HCCI's unique health care claims dataset, this brief illustrates the impact of diabetes on the us...

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