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Mashup Score: 0Outpatient visits billed at increasingly higher levels: implications for health costs - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
Outpatient visits are increasingly coded at higher levels over time, contributing to the high cost of outpatient care in the US.
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Mashup Score: 2Preventive services use among people with private insurance coverage - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
The majority of privately insured people in the U.S. received an ACA preventive service in 2018. Ongoing litigation could limit access to these services.
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NEW: As the courts weigh the future of the ACA’s preventive services coverage, our new analysis with @PetersonCHealth finds that most people with private insurance used at least one such benefit without cost-sharing in a typical year. Our analysis: https://t.co/c8xsxw9dpW https://t.co/feo95aaJ1D
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Mashup Score: 1Outpatient visits billed at increasingly higher levels: implications for health costs - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
Outpatient visits are increasingly coded at higher levels over time, contributing to the high cost of outpatient care in the US.
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Outpatient claims for evaluation and management services are growing more complex over time, leading to higher costs. Our analysis w/@PetersonCHealth tracks the trends through 2021 and its implications: https://t.co/Mcsvc32dZW https://t.co/34QdhDsURi
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Mashup Score: 8Outpatient visits billed at increasingly higher levels: implications for health costs - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
Outpatient visits are increasingly coded at higher levels over time, contributing to the high cost of outpatient care in the US.
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RT @LorenAdler: A good look at how dramatically provider upcoding across services continues to grow: https://t.co/nPCAOriSuM https://t.co…
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Mashup Score: 4Explainer: Federal independent dispute resolution process for surprise medical bills - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
The No Surprises Act prohibits most surprise bills starting in 2022. About 1 in 5 emergency room visits and 16% of in-network hospitalizations for non-emergency care included surprise bills from out-of-network providers. The law prohibits doctors, hospitals, and other covered providers from billing patients more than the in-network cost sharing amount for protected services, which include:…
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NEW: Under the #NoSurprisesAct, doctors, hospitals and other providers can dispute payments for out-of-network services via an independent process. Our analysis w/@PetersonCHealth looks at who is filing disputes and against which insurers: https://t.co/SkWmmEVxeW https://t.co/VbTLohZabh
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Mashup Score: 1How has U.S. spending on healthcare changed over time? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
This chart collection explores recently released National Health Expenditure (NHE) data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). These data offer insights into changes in health spending over time as well as the driving forces behind spending growth. The data specifically show how healthcare spending changed in 2021 after deviating from historical trends […]
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3/10 US health spending quadrupled in the past 20 years. Adjusted for inflation, per capita spending has risen ~7x higher over the past 5 decades. https://t.co/YL2LhVSY7x https://t.co/Y3OBT1JfSH
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Mashup Score: 0How does U.S. life expectancy compare to other countries? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
In 1980, life expectancy at birth in the U.S. and in comparably large and wealthy countries was similar, but over recent decades, life expectancy has improved by much more in peer nations than it has in the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased mortality and premature death rates in the U.S. by more than it […]
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4/10 Yet, higher per capita spending has not yielded better health outcomes. Life expectancy is 6.3 years less in the US than comparable countries and dropped more during the pandemic than in these other countries. https://t.co/IEZCCCyBOP https://t.co/tVmcQZUSum
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Mashup Score: 3Ongoing challenges with hospital price transparency - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
Summary Since 2021, hospitals have been required to publicly post standard charges and negotiated rates for the common health services and procedures. These price transparency requirements are intended to enable patients to compare prices and promote competition in the health care markets. Additionally, these data have been used by researchers for conducting research on prices […]
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Inconsistencies within hospital price transparency data make cost comparisons difficult, and that stems in part from the lack of specificity in federal regulations. Our analysis w/@PetersonCHealth highlights systematic issues with the data: https://t.co/0Xijvz6qP0
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Mashup Score: 13Out-of-pocket spending on insulin among people with private insurance - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker - 2 year(s) ago
The Build Back Better Act, which has passed the House but stalled in the Senate, would cap insulin out-of-pocket costs for people with insurance. Several other recent legislative proposals would also limit out-of-pocket spending on insulin, including the Ending Pricey Insulin Act, introduced in April 2021 by Senator John Kennedy and the Affordable Insulin Now […]
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At least 1 in 5 #insulin users w/ private insurance would benefit from capping their out-of-pocket costs at $35/month. Monthly savings would be substantial for some. Our analysis: https://t.co/b0JOg6fhnu #SOTU https://t.co/eZFo0fVgAh
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Mashup Score: 4
In this chart collection, we explore trends in how costs affect access to healthcare in the U.S. based on the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data through 2021.In the 2021 NHIS survey, 1 in 11 adults reported delaying or not getting medical care due to cost reasons. KFF polling from March 2022 found four in ten adults (43%) report that they or a family member in their household put off or…
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Health care costs are of concern to everyone. @KFF #MedTwitter https://t.co/LgbX8JLfkC https://t.co/dji28jehkA
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15/17 Physicians receive very limited training on hospital billing. We are provided reports on billing relative to our peers, and there has been a steady increase in higher level billing. https://t.co/nDPCVQBIIt https://t.co/pHNitXfINC