An Analysis of Private-Sector Prices for Hospital Admissions: Working Paper 2017-02

Jared Lane Maeda and Lyle Nelson

No 52567, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: Prices for hospital admissions have received considerable attention in recent years, both because they are an important component of health care spending and because they can vary widely. In this paper, we use 2013 claims data from three large insurers to examine the hospital payment rates of those insurers in their commercial plans and their Medicare Advantage plans and compare them with Medicare’s fee-for-service (FFS) rates; we also examine the variation of those rates across and within markets. We found that the average commercial payment rate for a hospital admission

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Date: 2017-04-04
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