Variation in health spending growth for the privately insured from 2007 to 2014

Cooper, Zack, Craig, Stuart, Gray, Charles, Gaynor, Martin and Van Reenen, John ORCID: 0000-0001-9153-2907 (2019) Variation in health spending growth for the privately insured from 2007 to 2014. Health Affairs, 38 (2). pp. 230-236. ISSN 0278-2715

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Abstract

We examined the growth in health spending on people with employer-sponsored private insurance in the period 2007-14. Our analysis relied on information from the Health Care Cost Institute data set, which includes insurance claims from Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare. In the study period private health spending per enrollee grew 16.9 percent, while growth in Medicare spending per fee-for-service beneficiary decreased 1.2 percent. There was substantial variation in private spending growth rates across hospital referral regions (HRRs): Spending in HRRs in the tenth percentile of private spending growth grew at 0.22 percent per year, while HRRs in the ninetieth percentile experienced 3.45 percent growth per year. The correlation between the growth in HRR-level private health spending and growth in fee-for-service Medicare spending in the study period was only 0.211. The low correlation across HRRs suggests that different factors may be driving the growth in spending on the two populations.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Economics
Date Deposited:	05 Jun 2020 16:36
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 05:35
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105022

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