Understanding Drivers of Healthcare Spending
The Peterson Center on Healthcare works with academic partners to produce localized, data-driven insights on health spending and outcomes. Data collected at the local level reveals new findings that national figures may not capture, enabling decision makers to develop targeted policies for improving healthcare performance.
Across the United States, we are lacking healthcare performance data and evidence at the local level.
The Peterson Center on Healthcare and academic and research partners from across the country offer healthcare stakeholders and policymakers data-driven insights on local healthcare performance.
The Center supports the work of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to generate localized data throughout the United States. With support from the Center and Gates Ventures, IHME created the first nationwide county-level dataset of U.S. health expenditures, utilization, and value. The dataset enables local health systems to benchmark spending and performance metrics against other counties or states, offering policymakers valuable insights into the drivers of year-to-year healthcare spending growth to make informed spending decisions that improve healthcare.
Peterson-IHME Research Reveals Variation in Healthcare Spending
Peterson Center on Healthcare Supports Launch of the Yale Health Care Affordability Lab
The Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale is a new initiative to curb rising U.S. healthcare spending by producing timely, rigorous, policy-relevant health economics research.
Health Spending Issues to Watch This Year
A new brief from the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker outlines federal and state-level health spending issues to watch throughout 2025.
Privately Insured People With Depression and Anxiety Face High Out-Of-Pocket Costs
In this brief, we explore health spending among privately insured adults treated for depression and/or anxiety.