How much is health spending expected to grow?
This chart collection explores the ways health spending has changed over time and projections of health spending in the future. An earlier brief also explored trends in this topic. …
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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.…
What are the recent and forecasted trends in prescription drug spending?
The cost of prescription drugs has become a hot-button issue with consumers and policymakers. One in four people taking prescription drugs report difficulty affording their medication and recent Kaiser Family Foundation opinion polling has found bipartisan support for government action …
How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries?
This chart collection takes a look at how spending on healthcare in the United States compares to other OECD countries that are similarly large and wealthy (based on GDP and GDP per capita). The analysis looks at 2017 health data …
A generation of healthcare in the United States: Has value improved in the last 25 years?
Jeffrey Selberg is a Senior Advisor with the Peterson Center on Healthcare. Bradley Sawyer, Cynthia Cox, Marco Ramirez, Gary Claxton, and Larry Levitt are with the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Measuring the value of the U.S. healthcare system – and particularly …
In a given year, a small portion of the population is responsible for a very large percentage of total health spending. We tend to focus on averages when discussing health spending, but individuals’ health status – and thus their need …
More employers are paying for telemedicine, but enrollee take-up has been relatively low
Telemedicine – the delivery of health services by providers at remote locations, such as through video conferencing or remote monitoring – has been seen as a way to possibly improve access to care while also lowering costs. In our 2018 …
What are recent trends and characteristics of workers with high drug spending?
Prescription drug spending grew rapidly between 2014 and 2015, but increases have been more modest recently. Several studies by the federal government, pharmacy benefit managers, and insurers point to high prices for new “specialty” drugs as driving the spike, in …
An analysis of out-of-network claims in large employer health plans
Being unable to afford health care when it is needed is one of the major worries of families, even those with insurance. Overall cost sharing (i.e., deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance) has been increasing in employer plans, and enrollees who use …
Increases in cost-sharing payments continue to outpace wage growth
Cost-sharing between insurance providers and patients has increasingly become a topic of public discussion. In particular, the increasing proportion that enrollees are paying for healthcare has been an area of concern. For example, in the ten years from 2006 to …