Valentine's Day – known for romantic candlelit dinners, lavish jewelry, and red roses – is pricey. Indeed, the National Retail Federation's Annual Valentine's Day Spending Survey suggests that an individual spends an average of $175 on these gifts each year. However, data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission shows that the cost of love may be even greater, as more than 300 emergency room vi...
HCCI's 2019 HCCUR and other researcher were featured in an article about spending on employer-sponsored health insurance in Kansas and Missouri. From the article: "A recent study by the Health Care Cost Institute found spending per person with employer health insurance grew more than 20% over five years. That's nearly three times the pace of broader economic inflation." Yes, more and more of ...
Abstract: CBO examined potential reasons that the prices paid by commercial health insurers for hospitals' and physicians' services are higher, rise more quickly, and vary more by area than the prices paid by the Medicare fee-for-service program.
January 10, 2022 08:30 AM Eastern Standard Time WASHINGTON-- Today, the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) Governing Board announced it had selected Katie Martin as its next President and Chief Executive Officer. Martin is a nationally recognized leader in health policy, with a career-long commitment to public service; she brings evidence and analytics to the most critical health po...
HCCI's data users and staff use our multi-payer, longitudinal commercial claims dataset to study some of the most pressing issues in the U.S. health care system. Here we highlight some recent research using HCCI data: HCCI 2019 Healthy Marketplace Index Using nearly 4.2 billion commercial claims from 2015 to 2019, HCCI tracks drivers of health care spending across 185 U.S. cities throug...
