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Non-Shoppable Health Care Services: Inpatient Hospitalizations
Read more: Non-Shoppable Health Care Services: Inpatient HospitalizationsThis data brief reports on spending and utilization in populations likely unable to shop for a hospital prior to seeking care, comparing spending and length-of-stay for individuals who were admitted through the emergency department (ED) to that of individuals who needed ambulance services the day of their admission through the ED.
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JAMA Internal Medicine: A Perspective on Out-of-Pocket Spending
Read more: JAMA Internal Medicine: A Perspective on Out-of-Pocket SpendingTo the Editor Understanding out-of-pocket spending is critical to understanding health care costs in the United States. We applaud the efforts of Adrion et al as an important contribution to understanding the out-of-pocket spending of the commercially insured population younger than 65 years. The commercially insured comprise over 50% of the nonelderly US population and, as…
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Medicare Advantage Health Care Utilization – Observation Stays
Read more: Medicare Advantage Health Care Utilization – Observation StaysThis data brief reports on outpatient observations stays in the Medicare Advantage population from 2010 through 2014. The results show that the rate of observations stays increased in total as well as following hospitalizations.
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2015 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report
Tags: Commercially Insured, Drug Spending, HCCUR, Inpatient Spending, Outpatient Spending, Physician Spending, Utilization
Read more: 2015 Health Care Cost and Utilization ReportThe 2015 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report shows that spending per privately insured averaged $5,141 in 2015, up $226 from the year before. Key Findings Health care spending averaged $5,141 per individual in 2015, up $226 from the year before. Out-of-pocket spending rose 3.0 percent in 2015, to an average of $813 per capita….
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Medicare Advantage Health Care Utilization – Hospital Readmissions
Read more: Medicare Advantage Health Care Utilization – Hospital ReadmissionsThis data brief, reports on five readmission rate measures for the Medicare Advantage (MA) population: 30-day all-cause hospital-wide readmissions and 30-day all-cause readmissions following acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and pneumonia. The results show that MA readmission rates have been declining over the past five years.
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Consumer-Driven Health Plans: A Cost and Utilization Analysis
Read more: Consumer-Driven Health Plans: A Cost and Utilization AnalysisThis data brief examines the health care use and spending from 2010-2014 for people who are enrolled in consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), and compares these trends to non-CDHP enrollees. Findings indicate that although fewer total dollars were spent on health care for CDHP enrollees, they had higher per capita out-of-pocket spending on deductibles, copays, and…
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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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2014 Diabetes Health Care Cost and Utilization Report
Read more: 2014 Diabetes Health Care Cost and Utilization ReportThe 2014 Diabetes Health Care Cost and Utilization Report examines how much is spent on health care for adults and children with diabetes, where those dollars are spent, and how that compares to people without diabetes. It is based on the health care claims of more than 40 million Americans younger than 65 covered by…
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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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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…