JAMA
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JAMA Research Letter: Primary Care Spending in the Commercially Insured Population
Read more: JAMA Research Letter: Primary Care Spending in the Commercially Insured PopulationUsing HCCI’s data, we assessed the share among individuals younger than 65 years covered by employer-sponsored insurance from 2013 to 2017. We assessed primary care spending using 2 main definitions: a definition which included the total spending on services rendered by primary care clinicians (broad definition) and one where only CPT codes for specific services specified as…
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JAMA Internal Medicine: A Perspective on Out-of-Pocket Spending
Read more: JAMA Internal Medicine: A Perspective on Out-of-Pocket SpendingTo the Editor Understanding out-of-pocket spending is critical to understanding health care costs in the United States. We applaud the efforts of Adrion et al as an important contribution to understanding the out-of-pocket spending of the commercially insured population younger than 65 years. The commercially insured comprise over 50% of the nonelderly US population and, as…