The Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker provides clear, up-to-date information on trends, drivers and issues that impact the performance of the system. It also illustrates how the U.S. is performing relative to other countries and how different parts of the system are performing relative to one another. A partnership of the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the KFF, the Tracker’s work goal places a heavy emphasis on data and evidence, addressing key questions through collections of charts, which provide data with additional context and synthesis of the latest research and developments. The Tracker also provide regular insight briefs for a more in-depth look at topical questions.
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Unvaccinated COVID patients cost the U.S. health system billions of dollars
This updated analysis for the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker estimates that the preventable costs of treating unvaccinated patients in hospitals total $3.7 billion in August, almost twice the estimates for June and July combined. The three-month total now stand at an estimated $5.7 billion.
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Related Peterson-KFF Resources
- National Health Spending Explorer
- COVID-19 continues to be a leading cause of death in the U.S. in August 2021
- Early 2021 Data Show No Rebound in Health Care Utilization
- Few Adults Are Aware of Hospital Price Transparency Requirements
- Early Results from Federal Price Transparency Rule Show Difficultly in Estimating the Cost of Care
- Surprise Bills Vary by Diagnosis and Type of Admission
- Health System Dashboard
- Household Health Spending Calculator
- What Do We Know About People with High Out-of-Pocket Spending?
- What Drives Health Spending in the U.S. Compared to Other Countries
- How does the quality of the U.S. health care system compare to other countries?
Most private insurers are no longer waiving cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatment
This analysis finds nearly three quarters of the largest health plans in each state are no longer waiving enrollees’ cost-sharing requirements for COVID-19 treatment as of August 2021. Insurers largely waived those costs early in the pandemic, before safe and effetive vaccines were available.
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What Do We Know about Social Determinants of Health in the U.S. and Comparable Countries?
Slideshow Read More A New Way of Measuring Health Costs Sheds Light on Recent Health Spending Trends
National health spending started to grow more rapidly recently after several years of unusually slow growth. This analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis helps to dissect why that may be happening. Using recently-released disease-based health spending data compiled by the federal government, the analysis finds…
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A Look at How the Opioid Crisis Has Affected People with Employer Coverage
This Kaiser Family Foundation analysis finds that while prescription opioid use among people with private insurance has declined to its lowest levels in over a decade, the cost of treating opioid abuse has increased substantially.
Issue Brief Read More New Charts Track Growth in U.S. Health Care Prices, Draw Comparisons to Other Countries
Two new chart collections examine trends in healthcare prices and utilization and compare health spending in the United States with that of other wealthy countries.
News Release Read More Analysis: For Patients with Large Employer Coverage, About 1 in 6 Hospital Stays Includes an Out-of-Network Bill
A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of medical bills from large employer plans finds that a significant share of inpatient hospital admissions includes bills from providers not in the health plan’s networks, generally leaving patients subject to higher cost-sharing and potential additional bills from providers. Almost 18 percent of inpatient…
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Visualizing Health Policy: The Costs and Outcomes of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in the US
This Visualizing Health Policy infographic looks at costs and outcomes of mental health and substance use disorders in the United States (US). Nearly 18% of adults reported having a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder in 2015, including more than 1 in 5 women. Furthermore, nearly 3% of people aged 12…
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