Prescription drug analytics firm Truveris maintains an index of drug prices and regularly reports on trends.
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A study in Health Affairs analyzes health care spending for the elderly, who account for the largest population subset of those costs.
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A blog post by the Altarum Institute takes a really long look at the history of health spending in the United States.
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A report from Truven Health Analytics gives trends on health spending in employer-sponsored plans.
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A Peterson-Kaiser blog post summarizes the data on US health use and unit prices versus other countries. The data indicates that our utilization rates are not out of line but our unit costs are the highest.
http://www.healthsystemtracker.org/2015/01/how-u-s-utilization-and-price-of-healthcare-compare-to-other-countries/Medicare spending, like overall health spending, has been lower for the last few years than was originally projected. A Kaiser Family Foundation brief attempts to understand factors behind the slowdown.
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Yet another approach to understanding the sources of geographic health spending variation in a paper from the NBER.
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An article in the Harvard Business Review suggests that many hospital cost-cutting efforts may be misguided.
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More prognosticating in the form of PWC's report on important health trends for 2015.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation in conjunction with The Peterson Foundation has created a new health system tracker which will issue regular reports on the state of American health.
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National health care spending in the US grew to $2.9 trillion in 2013, a rate of 3.6% over 2012, and a continuation of growth deceleration.
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The Government Accounting Office reports on the adequacy of health care cost and qualityual transparency tools.
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Research published in the American Journal of Managed Care again demonstrates that private insurers pay a lot more for hospital inpatient services than do Medicare or Medicaid.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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