Healthy Marketplace Index
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Past the Healthy Marketplace Index, Volume II: Exploring Changes in Actual Prices Paid for Specific Services by Metro Area from 2013 to 2017
Read more: Past the Healthy Marketplace Index, Volume II: Exploring Changes in Actual Prices Paid for Specific Services by Metro Area from 2013 to 2017In the first brief of the Past the Healthy Marketplace Index series, we explored how prices compared across the country and found that, in 2017, health care prices for specific services varied by as much as 22-fold across metro areas and even up 40-fold within them. In this next brief, we looked at variation in…
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Past the Healthy Marketplace Index, Volume I: Exploring Actual Prices Paid for Specific Services by Metro Area
Read more: Past the Healthy Marketplace Index, Volume I: Exploring Actual Prices Paid for Specific Services by Metro AreaHow much people spend on health care from place to place reflects multiple, interwoven, and dynamic factors, such as the cost and use of services. Health care spending and its driving factors change over time, differ across geographies, and vary by type of service. The Health Care Cost Institute’s (HCCI) Healthy Marketplace Index (HMI) provides…
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Health Services Research: Comparing Different Methods of Indexing Commercial Health Care Prices
Read more: Health Services Research: Comparing Different Methods of Indexing Commercial Health Care PricesThe methodology for HCCI’s Healthy Marketplace Index was published in a Methods Brief for Health Services Research. Abstract Objective: To compare different methods of indexing health care service prices for the commercially insured population across geographic markets. Data Sources: Health Care Cost Institute commercial claims data from 2012 to 2016. Study Design: We compare price indices computed using…
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Past the Price Index: Exploring Actual Prices Paid for Specific Services by Metro Area
Read more: Past the Price Index: Exploring Actual Prices Paid for Specific Services by Metro AreaAs policymakers, employers, and patients increasingly struggle with rising health care costs, there is a lack of clarity around the actual price of health care services and why those prices are so different. Recent efforts have focused on greater price transparency as a way to impact growing prices. A range of proposals from both Congress…
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Understanding how price growth affected areas differently across the country
Read more: Understanding how price growth affected areas differently across the countryRecently, the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) published its Healthy Marketplace Index (HMI) – Price Index report, examining relative health care prices in 112 different metropolitan areas. This report is the first in a new series of releases from the HMI project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which compares commercial health care markets…
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Health Affairs: Understanding Health Spending – Lessons From The Healthy Marketplace Index
Read more: Health Affairs: Understanding Health Spending – Lessons From The Healthy Marketplace IndexHEALTH AFFAIRS BLOG: “As policymakers consider actions to address challenges with the Affordable Care Act and ongoing growth in health spending, the importance of understanding local health care market dynamics is more important than ever. Traditionally, policy makers and other stakeholders have evaluated commercial health care markets’ total spending and often attributed high spending to…
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Healthy Marketplace Index – 2015
Read more: Healthy Marketplace Index – 2015The Healthy Marketplace Index is a series of metrics that measure the economic performance of health care markets across the country. The HMI was developed with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Healthy Marketplace Index Report (HMI) shows the economic performance of more than 40 health care markets across the country. Developed by the…
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Taking the Pulse of Health Care Markets
Read more: Taking the Pulse of Health Care MarketsThis data brief discusses patterns in the price and utilization indices reported in the 2015 Healthy Marketplace Index Report.