

Health System Dashboard
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17.7%
of the GDP
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10.5%
of adults report delaying or going without care due to costs
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-65%
from 1980 to 2017
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70.4%
of children aged 19-35 months received combined 7-vaccine series
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Early results from federal price transparency rule show difficulty in estimating the cost of care
As of January 1, under federal rules issued by the Trump Administration, hospitals are required to publish the price of health services by payer. The federal rule aims to improve price competition by requiring hospitals to publicly list the hospital …
COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Excess Mortality and Potential Years of Life Lost in the U.S. and Peer Countries
Researchers have used a variety of measures to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including deaths directly attributed to COVID-19 infection and deaths in excess of prior years’ death rates. However, these measures do not incorporate the prematurity of …
How have health spending and utilization changed during the coronavirus pandemic?
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it was not clear how healthcare utilization and spending would change. Although one might expect health costs to increase during a pandemic, there were other factors driving spending and utilization down.
In spring of 2020, …
COVID-19 Test Prices and Payment Policy
Testing for COVID-19 remains a key strategy to identify active infections and contain the spread of the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends testing for people when there is a concern of potential COVID-19, including when …
COVID-19 is the Number One Cause of Death in the U.S. in Early 2021
In 2020, COVID-19 became the third leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by cancer and heart disease. However, that ranking includes months in early 2020 when the pandemic had not fully taken hold in the U.S. …
The initial roll out of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States has been mired with distribution challenges. State and local governments, health systems, and other providers have at many times faced shortages and other times been left with unused vaccines. …
Price Transparency and Variation in U.S. Health Services
In the final months of the Trump Administration, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released final rules establishing price transparency requirements for healthcare services. Generally, health insurance companies and healthcare providers negotiate prices for services and …
How does cost affect access to care?
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated social distancing to mitigate community spread of the coronavirus. Social distancing recommendations have increased the number of people that report delaying or missing health care visits in 2020, including for preventive services. We do not …
How has U.S. spending on healthcare changed over time?
This chart collection explores recently released National Health Expenditure (NHE) data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. These data offer insight into changes in health spending over time as well as the driving forces behind spending growth.…
How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries?
In this chart collection, we take a look at how U.S. health spending compares to health spending in other OECD countries that are similarly large and wealthy (identified based on median GDP and median GDP per capita). For this analysis …