Ongoing Challenges With Hospital Price Transparency
This analysis examines transparency data currently shared by hospitals and finds it challenging for patients or researchers to use them to compare prices.
Read MoreHow Does Health Spending in the U.S. Compare to Other Countries?
This Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker chart collection examines how U.S. health spending compares to health spending in other OECD countries.
Read MoreVaried Health Spending Growth Across U.S. States Was Associated With Incomes, Price Levels, and Medicaid Expansion, 2000–19
A new state-level analysis of healthcare costs funded by the Peterson Center on Healthcare shows wide variations in healthcare spending across states.
Read MoreTracking the Pandemic’s Effects on Health Outcomes, Costs and Access to Care
The Center examines the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on health outcomes, spending, and access to care through 2021.
Read MoreNew Study: Low Back and Neck Pain Tops U.S. Health Spending
Americans in 2016 spent an estimated $380 billion on low back and neck pain—the highest expenditure of any health condition.
Read MorePrice and Intensity Identified as the Major Drivers of Rising Healthcare Spending
A new study published in JAMA reveals that healthcare spending rose by nearly $1 trillion between 1996 and 2013.
Read MorePeterson Center on Healthcare Supports New Initiative to Forecast Trends in U.S. Healthcare Spending
The Peterson Center on Healthcare announced an initiative to identify past drivers of U.S. healthcare spending to better forecast future spending trends.
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