Data on Health and Society Discussed by N. Brennan and Colleagues (Health Care Spending Under Employer-sponsored Insurance: a 10-year Retrospective)

2019 MAY 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Fresh data on Health and Medicine - Health and Society are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Washington, District of Columbia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Using a national sample of health care claims data from the Health Care Cost Institute, we found that total spending per capita (not including premiums) on health services for enrollees in employer-sponsored insurance plans increased by 44 percent from 2007 through 2016 (average annual growth of 4.1 percent). Spending increased across all major categories of health services, although the increases were not uniform across years or categories.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, “Growth rates for total per capita spending generally slowed after 2009 but increased between 2014 and 2016. Spending on outpatient services grew more quickly (average annual growth of 5.7 percent) compared to spending on the other types of services. However, the overall distribution of spending across categories remained largely unchanged.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “In the context of the dramatic economic and policy events that have taken place since 2007-including the Great Recession, the Affordable Care Act, and numerous medical innovations-this assessment of ten-year spending trends provides insights into how the largest insured population in the US contributes to health care spending growth.”

For more information on this research see: Health Care Spending Under Employer-sponsored Insurance: a 10-year Retrospective. Health Affairs, 2018;37(10):1623-1631. Health Affairs can be contacted at: Project Hope, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-6133, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from N. Brennan, Hlth Care Cost Inst, Washington, DC 20005, United States. Additional authors for this research include A. Frost, K. Kennedy and E. Barrette.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0481. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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