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CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING
Arbitration Over Out-Of-Network Medical Bills: Evidence From New Jersey Payment Disputes
By Benjamin L. Chartock, Loren Adler, Bich Ly, Erin Duffy, and Erin Trish
Seeking to resolve the issue of surprise medical bills, in 2018 New Jersey implemented a final-offer arbitration system to resolve payment disputes. Benjamin L. Chartock and coauthors investigate a full year’s worth of data and compare it to Medicare and commercial insurance claims data to determine the effectiveness if Congress followed suit. Read More >>
This article appears in the series Considering Health Spending.
National Health Care Spending In 2019: Steady Growth For The Fourth Consecutive Year
By Anne B. Martin, Micah Hartman, David Lassman, Aaron Catlin, and The National Health
Expenditure Accounts Team
An analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that in 2019 health care spending in the United States increased 4.6 percent to $3.8 trillion, or $11,582 per person. The 4.6 percent growth rate in 2019 was similar to the rate in
2018 (4.7 percent) and was consistent with the average annual spending growth rate of 4.5 percent that has been observed since 2016. Faster growth in personal health care spending was offset by a decline in the net cost of health insurance. Read More >>
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