Thursday, September 7, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Dear John,
This week on The Other 80 podcast, Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil joined Claudia Williams to discuss how states use Medicaid, the keys to successful implementation of whole person health care for greater community impact, and missed opportunities to understand and solve for the roots of inequity.
After examining millions of hospitalizations, they determine that average cost sharing increased by 34 percent between 2008 and 2019, an increase driven by increasing deductibles.
Kannan and coauthors also find
that ICU admission was associated with $155, or 13 percent, higher cost sharing than cost sharing in non-ICU hospitalizations. High deductible plans and the receipt of out-of-network care were associated with higher cost sharing.
Kannan and coauthors conclude that these findings could suggest that commercially insured patients are "largely protected from hospitalization price growth at the point of care."
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