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Costs / Expenditures

Costs: Costs to Patients & Insurers | Costs to Practitioners
Expenditures: | National Health Care Expenditures | State Health Care Expenditures

Costs

Costs to Patients & Insurers
(i.e. Average charges, Per Diem, By DRG, Ancillary Services, etc.)

Center for Studying Health System Change
www.hschange.com

Health Affairs

http://www.healthaffairs.org

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Hewitt Associates

Hewitt Associates Data Reveals Lowest U.S. Health Care Cost Increases in Eight Years (2006 report)

National Library of Medicine

HSR Information Central

"Serving the Information Needs of the Health Services Research Community"

Kaiser Family Foundation: Trends and Indicators of the Changing Health Care Marketplace, 2004 Chart Book
http://www.kff.org

Kaiser Family Foundation: Current Trends and Future Outlook for Retirees Health Benefits

Findings from the Kaiser/Hewitt 2004 Survey on Retiree Health Benefits

Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy

Acute Hospital Financial and Inpatient Information

Massachusetts Health and Human Services

Health Care Quality and Cost Information

National Employer Health Insurance Survey
www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nehis/nehis.htm

Costs to Practitioners

Physician Practice Costs

American Medical Association
www.ama-assn.org
MGMA-Medical Group Management Association
www.mgma.com

Health Care IT Spending

The Dorenfest Institute for Health Information Technology Research and Education
Annual Report of the US Hospital IT Market
http://www.himss.org/DorenfestInstitute/default.aspx

Benchmark IT Spending - All Industries

InformationWeek
InformationWeek 500 Industry Breakdown
Gartner Group ($)
Free 10 Minute IT Spending Benchmarking Survey

Expenditures

National Health Care Expenditures
(Including Growth Rates, Per Capita)

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
Statistical Brief #13: The National Hospital Bill: The Most Expensive Conditions, by Payer, 2004
Social Statistics Briefing Room
www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/health.html
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: National Health Expenditures
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/
Consumer Price Index (Inflation Rate),
Medical Care - Note medical care under the Latest Numbers heading on the right, and customized data may be obtained on the health care sector using the Create Customized Tables feature
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm
California HealthCare Foundation: Health Care Costs 101 Snapshot
http://www.chcf.org/topics/healthinsurance/index.cfm?itemID=119856
U.S. Census Bureau: 2003 Income, Poverty and Health Insurance (CPS Report) and Data from the American Community Survey (ACS) http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2004/2004IncomePov.html

State Health Care Expenditures
(Including Growth Rates, Per Capita)

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy -- Health Policy Topic:
Health Care Expenditures and Finances

This page last updated October 23, 2006

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