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Health Care Costs

AHRQ Research to Reduce Cost and Improve the Quality of Health Care
Chronic Care for Low-Income Children with Asthma: Strategies for Improvement
Creation of New Race-Ethnicity Codes and Socioeconomic Status (SES) Indicators for Medicare BeneficiariesNew
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Trends in Cost and Access
Focus on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis at AHRQ
Health Care Costs: Fact Sheet
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
The High Concentration of U.S. Health Care Expenditures
Monitoring and Evaluating Medicaid Fee-for-Service Care Management Programs: User's GuideNew!
Reducing Costs in the Health Care System
Research Initiative in Clinical Economics (RICE)

Research Activities: Online Newsletter
Summarizes study findings relating to health care costs

Agency Press Releases

Date   Title
3/3/08 Modest Health Care Quality Gains Outpaced by Spending
1/15/08 AHRQ Releases Consumer Financial Incentives Guide for Employers and Other Health Care Purchasers
10/12/07 AHRQ Expands Therapeutics Education and Research Centers and Adds New Topics: Health IT, Economics, Formularies

News and Numbers

Date   Title
8/27/08 Hospital Cost Increases Appear To Be Slowing
8/7/08 Health Insurance Premiums Have More Than Doubled Since 1996
6/25/08 Spending on Cholesterol Reducing Statins More Than Doubles in Just 5 Years

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Evidence Reports

Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, No. 82:
Pharmacologic Management of Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction: Effect in Female, Black, and Diabetic Patients, and Cost-Effectiveness
Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, No. 101:
Economic Incentives for Preventive Care
Technical Review, No. 7:
Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services

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Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)

MEPS Statistical Brief, Number 149:
National Health Care Expenses in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2004 (PDF Help)
MEPS Statistical Brief, Number 151:
Estimates of Health Care Expenditures for the 10 Largest States, 2004 (PDF Help)
MEPS Statistical Brief, Number 157:
Regional Differences in Total and Out-of-Pocket Expenditures for Selected Types of Office-Based Visits, 2004 (PDF Help)
MEPS Statistical Brief, Number 159:
Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Health Care among the Nonelderly Population, 2004 (PDF Help)
MEPS Statistical Brief, Number 166:
Expenses for Office-Based Physician Visits by Specialty, 2004 (PDF Help)
MEPS Statistical Brief, Number 167:
The Five Most Costly Conditions, 2000 and 2004: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population (PDF Help)

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Speeches & Testimony

Date   Title
2/26/08  Perspectives on Chartered Value Exchanges in a Changing Health Care Environment
2/23/08  The Value of Quality: Defining the Clinical and Economic Impact
7/9/03 Testimony on Technology, Innovation, and the Costs of Health Care

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Workshops & Conferences

Buy-Right for Health Care Quality: Evidence and Indicators
Web Conference, October 2004
Can You Minimize Health Care Costs by Improving Patient Safety?
Web Conference, September-October 2002
Causes of and Potential Solutions to the High Cost of Health Care
Web Conference, October 2002
Health Care Costs: Why Do They Increase? What Can We Do?
Workshop Brief, May 2001
Realizing the Promise of Value-based Purchasing
Workshop Brief, December 2000

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