Research & Reports

Facilitating clear, unbiased research around the most important trends in health care, HCCI enables all stakeholders in health care to drive improvements in quality and value with our robust analytics.

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Five years since US first biosimilar market entry, first signs of savings attributed to biosimilars in the employer-sponsored insurance population
Five years since US first biosimilar market entry, first signs of savings attributed to biosimilars in the employer-sponsored insurance population
Biologic drugs treat a range of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, retinal diseases, Crohn's disease and many other conditions. Despite accounting for use by just 2% of Americans, spending on biologic...
Price Markups for Clinical Labs: Employer-based Insurance Pays Hospital Outpatient Departments 3x Than Physician Offices and Independent Labs for Identical Tests
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) in collaboration with West Health conducted an analysis of the high prices that employer-based insurance pays hospital outpatient departments for clinical lab tes...
Welcome to HealthPrices.Org! HCCI’s Free Price Transparency Tool
Welcome to HealthPrices.Org! HCCI’s Free Price Transparency Tool
Building on a commitment to health care price transparency that spans more than a decade, the Health Care Cost Institute is excited to introduce HealthPrices.Org (formerly Guroo), a free health care p...
Obesity Treatments Vary Between ESI and Medicaid Populations
Obesity Treatments Vary Between ESI and Medicaid Populations
According to the most recent year of data available, an estimated 42% of adults have obesity and almost 20% of children are diagnosed with obesity. It is well documented that obesity prevalence a...

ANNUAL TRENDS REPORT
Health Care Cost & Utilization

HCCI’s annual report on trends in spending, use, and prices among people with employer-sponsored insurance.

  • HCCUR highlights year-over-year and five-year cumulative trends in health care spending, segmented by health care service categories.
  • Access downloadable data and examine HCCI’s research methodology to further examine the trends in the report.
  • Read our flagship report referenced by economists, journalists, thought leaders, and policymakers, since 2012.

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Health Care Vitals

An interactive dashboard lets users view national and state multi-payer health service data.

  • The data powering Health Care Vitals represents over 190 million people with public and private health insurance—nearly two out of every three people in the US with health insurance.
  • Track patterns and view monthly use rates of select health care services with the Vitals dashboard.
  • Filter and stratify the data by service category, payer type, and key demographics based on four complex and comprehensive underlying data sources. 

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Healthy Marketplace Index

An exploration of health care spending across the US by geographic region.

  • The Healthy Marketplace Index (HMI) tracks spending across 180+ cities to determine what factors drive spending across and within metro areas.
  • HMI illustrates geographic variation in overall per-person spending, price, and use and includes measures of local factors, such as hospital market concentration.

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