This inaugural Health Care Cost and Utilization Report summarizes national trends in health care utilization and cost, focusing on 2009 to 2010. Large quantities of private claims data are needed for a more complete picture of the entire health care system than can be had by looking at publicly available data. Few researchers have access to private claims data, and then generally from only one commercial insurer. By including insurers whose combined membership comprises almost 40 percent of the privately insured population, this report provides new, critical information to the public about health care costs. The 2010 report analyzed three billion claims for individuals covered by group employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI), representing approximately 20 percent of all individuals with ESI. Published: 2012
Health Care Cost and Utilization Report: 2010
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