Research & Reports

Facilitating clear, unbiased research around the most important trends in health care, HCCI enables all stakeholders in health care to drive improvements in quality and value with our robust analytics.

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Latest Original Research

Explore HCCI’s library of publications analyzing topics related to health care costs and utilization.

Policymakers and clinician consortia have identified low value care, defined as health care services that provide negligible clinical benefit to the patient when provided, as one way to curb excessive...
High and rising health care costs affect individuals, families, and businesses across the country, and they have for decades. Cost forces difficult choices between health care and other needs. Th...
Ambulances contribute to urgent lifesaving and life-enhancing medical care, but the unplanned nature of this essential service can lead to high unexpected costs to patients. This HCCI data brief focus...
Recent data from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) show that growth in hospitals' commercial inpatient prices was higher in system-affiliated and non-profit hospitals from 2012-2021.  Key Fin...

ANNUAL TRENDS REPORT
Health Care Cost & Utilization

HCCI’s annual report on trends in spending, use, and prices among people with employer-sponsored insurance.

  • HCCUR highlights year-over-year and five-year cumulative trends in health care spending, segmented by health care service categories.
  • Access downloadable data and examine HCCI’s research methodology to further examine the trends in the report.
  • Read our flagship report referenced by economists, journalists, thought leaders, and policymakers, since 2012.

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Interactive Report
Health Care Vitals

An interactive dashboard lets users view national and state multi-payer health service data.

  • The data powering Health Care Vitals represents over 190 million people with public and private health insurance—nearly two out of every three people in the US with health insurance.
  • Track patterns and view monthly use rates of select health care services with the Vitals dashboard.
  • Filter and stratify the data by service category, payer type, and key demographics based on four complex and comprehensive underlying data sources. 

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Healthy Marketplace Index

An exploration of health care spending across the US by geographic region.

  • The Healthy Marketplace Index (HMI) tracks spending across 180+ cities to determine what factors drive spending across and within metro areas.
  • HMI illustrates geographic variation in overall per-person spending, price, and use and includes measures of local factors, such as hospital market concentration.

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