Inflation spurs health dpending in 2000

Health Affairs

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 172-181

  Levit, Katharine ^a   Smith, Cynthia ^a   Cowan, Cathy ^a   Lazenby, Helen ^a   Martin, Anne ^a  

^a National Health Statistics Group   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG COST; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

DRUG COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INFLATION, ECONOMIC; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242713516     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.21.1.172     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Changes in real spending growth encompass increases in utilization, a changing mix of services, technological impacts, age/sex factors, population growth, and medical inflation in excess of general economywide inflation.
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3. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, "State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Aggregate Enrollment Statistics for the Fifty States and the District of Columbia for Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2000 and 1999," «hcfa.gov/init/fy99-00.pdf» (6 September 2001). Rep-resents children ever enrolled in SCHIP.
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7. IMS Health, "Generics Set for 'Take-Off,' " Press Release, 16 June 2001.
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9. J.R. Popovic and M.J. Hall, Advance Data: 1999 National Hospital Discharge Survey, Pub. no. 319 (Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, 24 April 2001). See also Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, "Health Care Indicators," Table 1: Selected Community Hospital Statistics, 1997-2000, «hcfa.gov/stats/indicatr/tables/tl.htm» (November 2001).
10. CMS, "Health Care Indicators," Table 10: Quarterly Index Levels and Four-Quarter Moving Average Percent Change in the CMS Prospective Payment System Hospital Input Price Index Using DRI Assumptions, by Expense Category: 1999-2003, «hcfa.gov/stats/indicatr/tables/t10.htm» (November 2001).
11. M. Freudenheim, "Medical Costs Surge as Hospitals Force Insurers to Raise Payments," New York Times, 25 May 2001.
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