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Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2022 - PwC

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PwC's Health Research Institute (HRI) is projecting a 6.5% medical cost trend in 2022, slightly lower than the 7% medical cost trend in 2021 and slightly higher than it was between 2016 and 2020. Healthcare spending …

COVID-19 Overturned the Theory of Medical Cost …

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Cost shifting implies that privately insured patients pay part of the cost of care for publicly insured and uninsured patients, implying that the extent of …

States Start to Move Away from Health Care Cost Shifting

https://www.milbank.org/2021/03/states-start-to-shift-away-from-health-care-cost-shifting/

When the cost-shifting game stops, and people get serious about the toll of underlying health care costs — on household and state budgets, economic competitiveness, and foregone investments in …

Why Do Healthcare Costs Keep Rising? - Investopedia

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Medicare Payment Policy: Does Cost Shifting Matter?

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.W3.480

We briefly review economic theory and available data and discuss the importance of cost shifting for policy. Then we present four central findings on cost …

Hospital cost shifting, a continuing debate - PubMed

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Cost shifting has a precise and easily understood meaning. It does not mean that some payers pay different prices than others. Different prices are commonplace throughout the …

What Is Cost Shifting? | Small Business - Chron.com

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Definition Cost shifting occurs when a hospital or other health-care provider charges an insured patient more than it does an uninsured patient for the same procedure or service. Those with...

Cost Shifting in Health Care: An Economic Analysis

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2.2.20

Prologue: The commercial health insurance industry and, to some extent, large employers have sharply attacked government policies that have led hospitals to …

Cost Shifting – U.S. Health Policy Gateway

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The actuarial firm Milliman has calculated that if Medicare and Medicaid cost-shifting had been eliminated, privately insured hospital costs in 2006 could have been reduced by …

Hospital cost shifting: Brief history and possible future

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Cost shifting implies price discrimination but the existence of price discrimination does not imply cost shifting has occurred or, if it has, at what rate (i.e. how much did one payer’s price change relative to that …