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 Beneficiaries—New
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 Guide—New!
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
News and Numbers
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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
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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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